Edwin Markham Quotes

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.