Edwin Arnold Quotes

There is no caste in blood.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon veil behind.