Edwin Markham Quotes (10+)

Enjoy the best Edwin Markham Quotes. Quotations by Edwin Markham (American Poet)
Jan 01, 1970 - Jan 01, 1970

Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do.

When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

He drew a circle that shut me out... But love and I had the wit to win.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone.

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

Edwin Markham

About the Author

Edwin Markham (1852–1940) was an American poet whose work, notably 'The Man with the Hoe', championed social justice and the dignity of the laboring classes.