The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
Interpretation
Brotherhood is the ultimate expression of goodness in life.
In this quote, Edwin Markham elevates the concept of brotherhood, suggesting that it represents the highest form of goodness that one can achieve in life. It implies that the connections we forge with others, built on trust, support, and love, are the most valuable aspects of our existence and the ultimate goal we should strive for.
In practice
In a speech about community involvement, one might say, 'As Edwin Markham famously stated, 'the crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.'
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
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.
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
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other
Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
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