66 Quotes by Edwin Markham

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God’s Palm.

The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is Brotherhood.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God’s right hand Is caught into his left.

Lincoln, the Man of the People.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two.

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

We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.