Edwin Markham quotes

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!' (Edwin Markham)

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

Edwin Markham

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

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.

Edwin Markham

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.

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man. (Edwin Markham)

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.

Edwin Markham

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.

Edwin Markham

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?

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

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.

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

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

Edwin Markham

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity?

Edwin Markham

It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.

Edwin Markham

I will find you there where our low life heightens,
Where the door of the Wonder again unbars,
Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens,
In the Stars behind the stars. (Edwin Markham)

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

Edwin Markham

Down all the stretches of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this - More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed - More filled with signs and portents for the soul - More fraught with menace to the universe.

Edwin Markham

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?

Edwin Markham

So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.

Edwin Markham

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Edwin Markham

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: April 23, 1852
Died: March 7, 1940
Quotes count: 30
Wikipedia: Edwin Markham

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