Edwin Arnold Quotes

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• No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
• A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
• One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
• Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and…
• Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
• Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
• What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall…
• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
• Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
• Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
• Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
• For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
• Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
• There is no caste in blood.
• The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
• Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
• The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes…
• Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting…
• Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting…
• Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

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