SOME USEFUL THOUGHTS

 

SOME USEFUL THOUGHTS    

1.     What is this life if full of care,

      We have no time to stand and Stare. --Welsh poet W.H.Davies(1871-             1940) .

2.     He prayeth well, who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things great and small,

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all. ---The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

 

3.Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign.

    Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes

     Like ours; the land our brothers walk upon

      Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.---The English poet James

       Kirkup (1918-2009).                                    

      

4.     Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;-

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing, o’er life’s solemn main,

Seeing, shall take heart again.-----The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

 

5.     Not gold, but only men can make

A people great and strong---

Men who, for truth and honour’s sake,

Stand fast and suffer long.                                                  

Brave men who work while others sleep,

Who dare while others fly---

They build a nation’s pillars deep,

And lift them to the sky.----The American poet Ralph waldo  Emerson (1803-1882).

 

6.     Just to be tender, just to be true ;

Just to be glad the whole day through;

Just to be merciful, just to be mild;

Just to be trustful as a child;

Just to be gentle and kind and sweet;

Just to be helpful with willing feet;

Just to be cheery when things go wrong;

Just to drive sadness away with a song;

Whether the hour is dark or bright,

Just to be loyal to God and right! ------Anonymous.

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G. R. Kanwal

11 May 2026