Be grateful for the kindly friends that… Be grateful for the skies of blue that s… Be grateful for the health you own, the… For round about you there are men less f… Be grateful for the growing trees, the r…
Men are of two kinds, and he Was of the kind I’d like to be. Some preach their virtues, and a few Express their lives by what they do. That sort was he. No flowery phrase
Some are eager to be famous, some are st… to be great, Some are toiling to be leaders of their… or their state, And in every man’s ambition, if we only…
When God first viewed the rose He’d mad… He smiled, and thought it passing fair; Upon the bloom His hands He laid, And gently blessed each petal there. He summoned in His artists then
My father often used to say: 'My boy don’t throw a thing away: You’ll find a use for it some day.’ So in a box he stored up things, Bent nails, old washers, pipes and rings…
When the hair about the temples starts t… the signs of gray, And a fellow realizes that he’s wanderin… away From the pleasures of his boyhood and hi…
As fall the leaves, so drop the days In silence from the tree of life; Born for a little while to blaze In action in the heat of strife, And then to shrivel with Time’s blast
