Fallen Leaf Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters

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• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks.…
• There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who…
• Work for your own soul's sake.
• . . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning…
• There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.
• The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle,…
• Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
• How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets…
• To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.
• O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

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