Charles Edwin Anson Markham was an American poet.
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“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
Edwin Markham
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”
“There is a destiny That makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.”
“The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.”
“"He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted" — Edwin Markham”
“All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own”
“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!”
“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.”
“By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.”
“Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, with what his comrade flung away.”