By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two — Edwin Markham Divine Copy Share Image
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart. — Edwin Markham Character Copy Share Image
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. — Edwin Markham Action Copy Share Image
Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in… — Edwin Markham Dawn Copy Share Image
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm. — Edwin Markham Calm Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. — Edwin Markham Defeat Copy Share Image
“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.” — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula… — Edwin Markham City Copy Share Image
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his… — Edwin Markham Burden Copy Share Image
“For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike. ” — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that… — Edwin Markham Civilization Copy Share Image
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green… — Edwin Markham Earth Copy Share Image
Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham Chains Copy Share Image
Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we… — Edwin Markham Christ Copy Share Image
Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this… — Edwin Markham Beauty Copy Share Image
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting… — Edwin Markham Choice Copy Share Image
Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little… — Edwin Markham Blind Copy Share Image
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the… — Edwin Markham Capitalism Copy Share Image
The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few… — Edwin Markham Mind Copy Share Image
No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. — Edwin Markham Life Copy Share Image
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood. — Edwin Markham Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Ardent Copy Share Image
Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal… — Edwin Markham Alone Copy Share Image
“They drew a line that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout! But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
