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> [Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/force-cannot-transmit-a-moral-principle-moral-ideas-can-be-received/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

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## More by Edwin Markham

> [I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/i-fear-the-vermin-that-shall-underminesenate-and-citadel-and-school/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/greed-and-gain-grim-guardians-of-the-great-god-mammon-continually-cry/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/here-is-the-truth-in-a-little-creed-enough-for-all-the-roads-we-go-in/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/there-is-a-destiny-which-makes-us-brothers-none-goes-his-way-alone/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [“Some momentary touches of my fire Have warmed the barren ages with a beam: There is no peak beyond my swift desire, There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/some-momentary-touches-of-my-fire-have-warmed-the-barren-ages-with-a/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [He fed his spirit with the bread of books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/he-fed-his-spirit-with-the-bread-of-books/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/bowed-by-the-weight-of-centuries-he-leans-upon-his-hoe-and-gazes-on/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/we-are-all-blind-until-we-see-that-in-the-human-plan-nothing-is-worth/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/only-the-soul-that-knows-the-mighty-grief-can-know-the-mighty-rapture/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/fight-ever-on-this-earthly-stuff-if-used-god-s-way-will-be-enough/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into his left](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/whoever-falls-from-god-s-right-hand-is-caught-into-his-left/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Lincoln, the Man of the People](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/lincoln-the-man-of-the-people/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/the-crest-and-crowning-of-all-good-life-s-final-star-is-brotherhood/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/bierce-radiates-brilliancy-and-perhaps-no-other-man-of-letters-ever/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

> [By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/by-a-divine-paradox-wherever-there-is-one-slave-there-are-two-so-in/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

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