<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373620" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Selfishness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Search history, my boy, and see<br>What petty selfishness has done.<br>Find if you can one victory<br>That little minds have ever won.<br>There is no record there to read<br>Of men who fought for self alone,<br>No instance of a single deed<br>Splendor they may proudly own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through all life's story you will find<br>The miser—with his hoarded gold—<br>A hermit, dreary and unkind,<br>An outcast from the human fold.<br>Men hold him up to view with scorn,<br>A creature by his wealth enslaved,<br>A spirit craven and forlorn,<br>Doomed by the money he has saved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No man was ever truly great<br>Who sought to serve himself alone,<br>Who put himself above the state,<br>Above the friends about him thrown.<br>No man was ever truly glad<br>Who risked his joy on hoarded pelf,<br>And gave of nothing that he had<br>Through fear of needing it himself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For selfishness is wintry cold,<br>And bitter are its joys at last,<br>The very charms it tries to hold,<br>With woes are quickly overcast.<br>And only he shall gladly live,<br>And bravely die when God shall call,<br>Who gathers but that he may give,<br>And with his fellows shares his all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Albert+Guest">Edgar Albert Guest</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373620" data-title="Selfishness de Edgar Albert Guest" data-description="Search history, my boy, and see What petty selfishness has done. Find if you can one victory That little minds have ever won. There is no record there to read Of men who fought for self alone, No instance of a single deed Splendor they may proudly..."></div> </div> </div>

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