Edwin Markham Quotes

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• 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…
• Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
• The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
• Choices are the hinges of destiny.
• 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,…
• Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
• Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The…
• I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
• 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…
• 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…
• No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.
• 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…
• It is better to rust out than wear out.
• At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
• 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…
• 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…

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