Joaquin Miller Quotes

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• He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
• Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here…
• All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and…
• The biggest dog has been a pup.
• Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of…
• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
• There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.
• Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
• The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not;…
• God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures…
• That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
• All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.
• O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and…
• The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the…
• He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.
• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each…

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