American - Poet | April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham
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The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.
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It is better to rust out than wear out.
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
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Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?
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The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few places where all may meet as equals under sun or rain; but only a John Bunyan could adequately portray the danger of the cities with their pitfalls for the young unguarded feet.
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Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
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To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
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It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
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Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
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'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.
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