Edwin Markham

“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”

“Teach me, Father, how to go softly as the grasses grow.”

“The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.”

“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!”

“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.”

“The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.”

“Come, let us live the poetry we sing.”

“Defeat may be victory in disguise.”

“At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky, is a place of central calm.”

“The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.”

“Two things rule the world: love and hunger.”

“A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.”

“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.”

“For all your days prepare, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear—when you are the hammer, strike.”