32 Quotes by Joaquin Miller

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

The soul that feeds on books alone -- I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -- A soul that has not learned to read.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!