"Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,……" — Joaquin Miller
"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 other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife"
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Joaquin Miller
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16 Quotes by Joaquin Miller
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He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs…
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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him…
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The biggest dog has been a pup.
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Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of…
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Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the…
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There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.
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Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
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The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world…
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God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you,…
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That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
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All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.
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