Light from many lamps
By: edited and with commentary by Lillian Eichler Watson.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.; Quotations, English.
Description: Anthology of inspirational prose and poetry selected from sources as varied as the classics and newspaper columns.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xvii; label: Part One
title: Happiness & The Enjoyment of Living
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: John Burroughs: The Secret of Happiness Is Something to Do
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Seneca: True Happiness Is to Rest Satisfied with What We Have
pagenum: 8; label: 3
title: W. Beran Wolfe: To Find Happiness We Must Seek for It in a Focus Outside Ourselves
pagenum: 11; label: 4
title: William S. Ogdon: Happiness Cannot Be Bought; Indeed, Money Has Very Little to Do with It
pagenum: 15; label: 5
title: William Lyon Phelps: How Essential It Is ... to Be Able to Live Inside a Mind with Attractive and Interesting Pictures on the Walls
pagenum: 19; label: 6
title: Frederic Loomis: Enjoy Yourself—It Is Later Than You Think
pagenum: 23; label: Part Two
title: Faith & Inner Calm
pagenum: 31; label: 1
title: Richard E. Byrd: I Could Feel No Doubt of Man's Oneness with the Universe ... It was a feeling that transcended reason; that went to the heart of a man's despair and found it groundless
pagenum: 32; label: 2
title: Henry Francis Lyte: I Triumph Still, If Thou Abide with Me
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: John Henry Newman: Lead, Kindly Light. The Night Is Dark, and I Am Far from Home
pagenum: 39; label: 4
title: Sarah Flower Adams: So by My Woes to Be Nearer, My God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
pagenum: 45; label: 5
title: William G. Farrow: My Faith in God Is Complete, So I Am Unafraid
pagenum: 50; label: 6
title: Alfred Tennyson: I Hope to See My Pilot Face to Face When I Have Crossed the Bar
pagenum: 53; label: 7
title: Robert Browning: The Journey Is Done... O Thou Soul of My Soul! I Shall Clasp Thee Again
pagenum: 57; label: 8
title: Eddie V. Rickenbacker: Humbly We Prayed for Food... Within an Hour a Sea Gull Came and Landed on My Head
pagenum: 62; label: 9
title: Abraham Lincoln: Without Divine Assistance I Cannot Succeed; With It I Cannot Fail
pagenum: 68; label: Part Three
title: Courage & The Conquest of Fear
pagenum: 73; label: 1
title: Paul Hamilton Hayne: This, Too, Shall Pass Away
pagenum: 74; label: 2
title: William Osler: What Is Patience But an Equanimity Which Enables You to Rise Superior to the Trials of Life?
pagenum: 79; label: 3
title: William Ernest Henley: I Am the Master of My Fate: I Am the Captain of My Soul
pagenum: 85; label: 4
title: Harold Russell: It Is Not What You Have Lost, but What You Have Left That Counts
pagenum: 88; label: 5
title: David Grayson: I Would No Longer Resist and Struggle; I Would Accept the Unavoidable... I Began to Let Go, to Relax... The Great Reward Was in the Mind... I Felt It Did Not Much Matter What Happened to My Body. Nothing Could Touch Me
pagenum: 95; label: 6
title: Mary Roberts Rinehart: There Is Nothing to Fear About Most Cases of Cancer—Nothing Except Delay!
pagenum: 100; label: 7
title: Robert Falcon Scott: Good-Bye... I Am Not at All Afraid of the End
pagenum: 104; label: 8
title: William Cullen Bryant: So Live That When Thy Summons Comes... Thou Go Not, Like the Quarry-Slave at Night... But Sustained and Soothed by an Unfaltering Trust
pagenum: 108; label: 9
title: Robert Ingersoll: I Wish to Take from Every Grave Its Fear... The Dead Do Not Suffer... Death Is Only Perfect Rest
pagenum: 116; label: 10
title: James Gordon Gilkey: Facing and Accepting a Loss Is the First Step of Managing Bereavement. Only the Life Which Deliberately Picks Up and Starts Over Again Is Victorious
pagenum: 120; label: 11
title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let Us, Then, Be Up and Doing, With a Heart for Any Fate; Still Achieving, Still Pursuing, Learn to Labor and to Wait
pagenum: 124; label: 12
title: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
pagenum: 128; label: Part Four
title: Confidence & Achievement
pagenum: 133; label: 1
title: Thomas Carlyle: Blessed Is He Who Has Found His Work
pagenum: 134; label: 2
title: Joaquin Miller: "What Shall We Do When Hope Is Gone?" The Words Leapt Like a Leaping Sword: "Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! and On!"
pagenum: 138; label: 3
title: Arnold Bennett: You Wake Up in the Morning, and Lo! Your Purse Is Magically Filled with Twenty-Four Hours—the Most Precious of Possessions
pagenum: 142; label: 4
title: A. J. Cronin: The Virtue of All Achievement Is Victory Over Oneself. Those Who Know This Victory Can Never Know Defeat
pagenum: 147; label: 5
title: Edward Rowland Sill: We Must Do the Best We Can with What We Have
pagenum: 153; label: 6
title: Mary Pickford: There Is Always Another Chance... This Thing That We Call "Failure" Is Not the Falling Down, but the Staying Down
pagenum: 156; label: Part Five
title: Self-Discipline & The Development of Character
pagenum: 161; label: 1
title: Oliver Wendell Holmes: Build Thee More Stately Mansions, O My Soul
pagenum: 162; label: 2
title: William Shakespeare: This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True
pagenum: 166; label: 3
title: James Lane Allen: The Divinity That Shapes Our Ends Is in Ourselves. All That a Man Achieves or Fails to Achieve Is the Direct Result of His Own Thoughts
pagenum: 169; label: 4
title: Ralph Waldo Emerson: My Life Is for Itself and Not for a Spectacle. What I Must Do Is All That Concerns Me, Not What the People Think
pagenum: 174; label: 5
title: Hippocrates: I Will Lead My Life and Practice My Art in Uprightness and Honor
pagenum: 180; label: Part Six
title: Personality & Relationship to Others
pagenum: 185; label: 1
title: St. Paul: Faith, Hope and Love, These Three—and the Greatest of These Is Love
pagenum: 186; label: 2
title: Let Me Not Neglect Any Kindness, for I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
pagenum: 191; label: 3
title: Confucius: What You Do Not Wish Done to Yourself, Do Not Do to Others
pagenum: 193; label: 4
title: Phillips Brooks: You Who Are Letting Your Friend's Heart Ache for a Word of Appreciation or Sympathy... the Time Is Short!
pagenum: 198; label: 5
title: Abraham Lincoln: With Malice Toward None, With Charity for All
pagenum: 203; label: 6
title: Sam Walter Foss: Let Me Live by the Side of the Road and Be a Friend to Man
pagenum: 208; label: Part Seven
title: Peace of Heart and Mind
pagenum: 213; label: 1
title: Sir William Osler: Live for the Day Only, and for the Day's Work. The Chief Worries of Life Arise from the Foolish Habit of Looking Before and After
pagenum: 214; label: 2
title: James Gordon Gilkey: You Want to Gain Emotional Poise? Remember the Hourglass, the Grains of Sand Dropping One by One. The Crowded Hours Come to You Always One Moment at a Time
pagenum: 219; label: 3
title: Frederic Loomis: The Best Medicine Is to Stop Thinking About Yourself, and Start Thinking About Other People
pagenum: 223; label: 4
title: John Burroughs: I Rave No More 'Gainst Time or Fate, For, Lo! My Own Shall Come to Me
pagenum: 227; label: 5
title: Henry David Thoreau: Our Life Is Frittered Away by Detail... Simplify, Simplify!
pagenum: 231; label: Part Eight
title: Love & Family Life
pagenum: 239; label: 1
title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
pagenum: 240; label: 2
title: Will Durant: Gladly I Surrender Myself to Love and Parentage
pagenum: 244; label: 3
title: Richard E. Byrd: At the End Only Two Things Really Matter to a Man: the Affection and Understanding of His Family
pagenum: 248; label: 4
title: John Howard Payne: 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces Though We May Roam, Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Home
pagenum: 252; label: Part Nine
title: Contentment in Later Years
pagenum: 259; label: 1
title: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Old Age Is the Consummation of Life, Just as of a Play
pagenum: 261; label: 2
title: Sir William Mulock: The Shadows of Evening Lengthen About Me, But Morning Is in My Heart
pagenum: 267; label: 3
title: Robert Browning: Grow Old Along with Me! The Best Is Yet to Be
pagenum: 271; label: Part Ten
title: Hope for the Future
pagenum: 279; label: 1
title: Endicott Peabody: The Great Fact to Remember Is That the Trend of Civilization Itself Is Forever Upward
pagenum: 281; label: 2
title: David E. Lilienthal: The Age in Which We Live Can Become One of the Blessed Periods in All History
pagenum: 287; label: 3
title: Wendell Willkie: Our Thinking in the Future Must Be Worldwide
pagenum: 297; label: 4
title: Oliver Wendell Holmes: Beyond the Vision of Battling Races and an Impoverished Earth, I Catch a Dreaming Glimpse of Peace
pagenum: 302; label: 5
title: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Only Limit to Our Realization of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts of Today. Let Us Move Forward with Strong and Active Faith
pagenum: 309; title: Index
pagenum: 319