Best Quotes by Edwin Markham (Top 10)
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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
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The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
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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.
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For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
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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.
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He fed his spirit with the bread of books
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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 say at the end, the dream is true!
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Choices are the hinges of destiny.
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
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More Edwin Markham Quotes
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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 that took him in.
Edwin Markham
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It is better to rust out than wear out.
Edwin Markham
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The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Edwin Markham
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To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
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At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God's Palm.
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Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
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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?
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Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.
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We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.
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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.
Edwin Markham