Light from Many Lamps

<b>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.</b> <p/>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.