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> [But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/but-every-human-path-leads-on-to-god-he-holds-a-myriad-finer-threads/)

[Edmund Clarence Stedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-clarence-stedman/)

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## More by Edmund Clarence Stedman

> [Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/above-the-clouds-i-lift-my-wing-to-hear-the-bells-of-heaven-ring-some/)

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> [Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/whither-away-bluebird-whither-away-the-blast-is-chill-yet-in-the/)

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> [No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/no-clouds-are-in-the-morning-sky-the-vapors-hug-the-stream-who-says/)

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> [The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/the-poet-is-a-creator-not-an-iconoclast-and-never-will-tamely/)

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> [Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/give-us-a-man-of-god-s-own-mould-born-to-marshall-his-fellow-men-one/)

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> [Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/lo-as-i-gaze-the-statured-man-built-up-from-you-large-hand-appears-a/)

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> [Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/natural-emotion-is-the-soul-of-poetry-as-melody-is-of-music-the-same/)

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> [Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/alas-by-what-rude-fate-our-lives-like-ships-at-sea-an-instant-meet/)

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> [Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/fashion-is-a-potency-in-art-making-it-hard-to-judge-between-the/)

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> [Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/music-waves-eternal-wands-enchantress-of-the-souls-of-mortals/)

[Edmund Clarence Stedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-clarence-stedman/)

> [Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/faith-and-joy-are-the-ascensive-forces-of-song/)

[Edmund Clarence Stedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-clarence-stedman/)

> [Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/genius-does-not-need-a-special-language-it-uses-newly-whatever-tongue/)

[Edmund Clarence Stedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-clarence-stedman/)

> [Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/look-on-this-cast-and-know-the-hand-that-bore-a-nation-in-its-hold/)

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> [The imagination never dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/the-imagination-never-dies/)

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> [No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-clarence-stedman/no-he-was-no-such-charlatan-count-de-hoboken-flash-in-the-pan-full-of/)

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