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Light from Many Lamps
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Light from Many Lamps Paperback - 1988

by Lillian Watson


Summary

A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotationsselected from the wisdom of the agesoffering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life.

Here are not only the best of the worlds most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Confucius, and many others. A distillation of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and philosophies that have been handed down to us through the ages, this is a book to turn to over and over againa book of moral, spiritual, and ethical guidancean unfailing source of comfort and inspiration for all.

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A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations--selected from the wisdom of the ages--offering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life.Here are not only the best of the world's most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Confucius, and many others. A distillation of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and philosophies that have been handed down to us through the ages, this is a book to turn to over and over again--a book of moral, spiritual, and ethical guidance--an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration for all.

First line

THE POET stood at his window and watched a neighbor walk by.

Details

  • Title Light from Many Lamps
  • Author Lillian Watson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 324
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Date 1988-01-15
  • ISBN 9780671652500 / 0671652508
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.39 x 5.52 x 0.96 in (21.31 x 14.02 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature, Quotations, English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87023617
  • Dewey Decimal Code 082

About the author

Lillian Watson is the author of Light From Many Lamps, a Simon & Schuster book.
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