Francis gay the friendship book
Advice on Human Relationships
The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
The five most important words: "You did a good job."
The four most important words: "What is your opinion?"
The third most essential words: "If you please."
The two most vital words: "Thank you."
The least important word: "I"
Six Treasured Maxims of King George V. Buckingham Palace
Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game;
Instruct me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, admiring the one and despising the other;
Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praises;
If I am called upon to suffer let me be like a well-bred beast that goes away to suffer in silence;
Teach me to prevail, if I may; if I may not, then above all teach me to be a fine loser;
Teach me neither to cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.
Passage of Faith and Trust
I believe in the sun, even if it does not shine.
I believe in love, even if I do not feel it.
I believe in God, even if I do not see Him.
~written by a young unknown Jew written on the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto.~
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"A closed hand cannot receive." ~Minister, name anon
"A KISS from my mother mad
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I am a huge fan of the ‘Friendship Books by Francis Gay’, the ones that have a thought for the morning, every day of the year. Every December or January I collect one from W H Smith, or I am privileged to find one in a local charity shop.
I was given my first book by my mother in my 20s. They are wonderful calming guide during the day. I enjoy reading about the amusing or thought provoking real life tales from everyday people. In some ways, the books remind me of the Chicken Soup for the Spirit books that are very popular round the society now. There seems to be a Chicken Guide for the Soul for everything now.
I decided to find out more about the Friendship books, so I contacted the publishers, D C Thomson.
They said,”The first Friendship Book of Francis Gay, dated 1939, went on sale in 1938. There has been a Friendship Book each year since.
The Francis Lgbtq+ Fund, originally the Coal Fund, began in a small way about forty years ago, when donations from readers were used to buy Christmas nourishment parcels and bags of coal for needy people.
This has now grown to assist thousands of people all year round, in a number of ways.
As a working journalist pursuing the
Hard Cover. Condition: Reasonable. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Thought For Each Day In 1976. WHERE THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN: Frost Flowers - Worcester; Thoughts - Long for Cove, Devon; Change - Harlech Castle, Merionethshire; Protected Haven - Aberdour, Fife; At Peace - Cambridge; Welcome - River Exe; Joy of Life - Cumberland; Lucky People - Swan Green, New Forest, Hampshire; London Tulips - Parliament Square, London; Holiday Magic - Mousehole, Cornwall; Content - Bran Termination, Essex; Lone Pine Vegetation - Shieldaig, Ross-shire; Perfection - Sonning Lock, Berkshire; Timeless - Shipley Church, Sussex; Looking Upwards - Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway; Passing Hours - Abinger Hammer, Surrey; The Sketchers - Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire; Serenity - Newbury, Berkshire; The River - River Dochart at Killin, Perthshire. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" high.
The Friendship Book 1981
Perhaps it is just my love for my cherished friend, or the gesture that she had of choosing a book with "friendship" on the title that really moved me when I started reading the poems and thoughts of each day of the author. It very quickly became one of my most prized possessions. I marked every page and date that belongs to a friend's birthday, showed them what was written for the reflection of each day and fell in love with many of the compact poems and reflections inside. The one that falls upon my birthday, on June 15th, I establish very sweet:
"Time is such a precious thing,
It's more than wealth untold!
It's something that we cannot store
And nobody can hold.
Life goes by so speedily,
Before we scarce can taste it,
And time can never be regained-
So why do people waste it?"
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