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 unti…

- Edwin Markham

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man …

- Edwin Markham

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

- Edwin Markham

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 …

- Edwin Markham

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

- Edwin Markham

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new bea…

- Edwin Markham

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

- Edwin Markham

It is better to rust out than wear out.

- 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.

- Edwin Markham