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.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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