A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
– Edwin Markham
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!
– Edwin Markham
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
– Edwin Markham
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.
– Edwin Markham
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory 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
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 that took him in.
– Edwin Markham
I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
– Edwin Markham
It is better to rust out than wear out.
– Edwin Markham
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
– Edwin Markham
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
– Edwin Markham
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
– Edwin Markham
When man to man shall be friend and brother.
– Edwin Markham
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.