Phrase by 'Edwin Markham'

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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.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Heart , White , Glory , Dawn


Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Help , Work , Think , Man


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.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Man , Sea , Rain , Sun


It is better to rust out than wear out.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet


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!

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Life , Great , Fight , Youth


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?

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Life , Feet , Green , Universe


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.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  World , City , Imagination , Birds


'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.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Great , White , Doubt , Civilization


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.

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Down , Alone , Failure , Spiritual


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

Author: Edwin Markham - American Poet
  Ideas , Moral , Heart , Reason


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