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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 our own.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Alone Back Brothers Destiny Goes His His Way Lives Makes None Others Our Own Send Us Way Which

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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.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Adequately Cities Could Danger Equals Feet Few Inviting John Like Man May Meet Mind Only Open Pitfalls Places Portray Rain Sea Street Sun Thing Where Young

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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 feet?

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Earth Feet Green Here Incredible Itself Life Our Should Thing Universe Why

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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 his back the burden of the world.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Ages Back Burden Centuries Emptiness Face Ground He His Weight World

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Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Bay Been Birds Cities City Definitely Few Francis Francisco He Imagination Impressed More Protected Protects Saint San San Francisco Ships Than Where World

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Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Alone Any Call Depend Doctrine Down Enterprise Every Failure Final Held Holding Human Pillars Right Should Spain Spiritual Stand Temporal Two Undertaking

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Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Cannot Force Heart Ideas Moral Only Principle Reason Received Through Transmit

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In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo was the most exhilarating spectacle in the round year.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Almost Boyhood Exhilarating Hills Little Most Neck Ran Rodeo Round Spectacle Valley Year

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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.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Anyone Bad Because Brotherhood Could Doubtless Give Happiness Life Live Men Real Them True Unhappy Want Would

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Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Big Big Money Fall Feet Good Good Thing He His Little Money Only Ruin Safe Soul Thing Those Wealth Who Will Wisdom A Good Thing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 23rd, 1852

Died: March 7th, 1940

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