Edwin Markham famous quotes

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
-- Edwin Markham

#Stars #Good Life #Brotherhood

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!
-- Edwin Markham

#Inspirational #Life #Dream

It is better to rust out than wear out.
-- Edwin Markham

#Rust

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
-- Edwin Markham

#Destiny #Choices #Decision

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

#Hoe #Age #World

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Encouraging #Soul #Victory

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

#Giving #Silence #Generations

He fed his spirit with the bread of books
-- Edwin Markham

#Book #Reading #Bread

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

#Inspirational #Life #Memories

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

#Feet #Earth #Green

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

#Heart #Grieving #Joy

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

#Love #Life #Peace

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

#Heart #Sky #Cyclones

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

#Inspirational #Preparation #Hammers

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.
-- Edwin Markham

#Fighting #Broken #Soldier

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

#Fall #Hands #Forever

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.
-- Edwin Markham

#Love #Law #Needs

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.
-- Edwin Markham

#Heart #Clouds #Sky

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.
-- Edwin Markham

#Men #Cities #Doe

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

#Two #Levels #Wonderful

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

#Sides #Oneself #Oppressed

The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.
-- Edwin Markham

#Running #Land #Perfect

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

#Heart #Sky #White

I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.
-- Edwin Markham

#Loneliness #Winning #Men

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

#Fear #School #Shrines

Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!
-- Edwin Markham

#Dream #Men #Doors

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

#Grief #Heart #Space

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
-- Edwin Markham

#Grief #Heart #Wind

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

#Liberty #Individual #Security