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Top 30 Edwin Markham Quotes (2025 Update)

Edwin Markham Quote: “For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.”

1. “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

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Edwin Markham Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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 unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.”

3. “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 unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

4. “Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

— Edwin Markham

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

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

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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!”

6. “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

Edwin Markham Quote: “In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.”

7. “In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.”

8. “Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”

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

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Edwin Markham Quote: “There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.”

11. “There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.”

12. “To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God’s Palm.”

13. “At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God’s Palm.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.”

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

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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?”

15. “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

Edwin Markham Quote: “It is better to rust out than wear out.”

16. “It is better to rust out than wear out.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.”

17. “Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is Brotherhood.”

18. “The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is Brotherhood.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Edwin Markham Quote: “No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God’s right hand Is caught into his left.”

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

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.”

21. “Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Lincoln, the Man of the People.”

22. “Lincoln, the Man of the People.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.”

23. “That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “He fed his spirit with the bread of books.”

25. “He fed his spirit with the bread of books.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.”

26. “Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.”

27. “I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “The thing that is incredible is life itself.”

28. “The thing that is incredible is life itself.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.”

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

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two.”

30. “By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two.”

— Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham Quote: “Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.”

31. “Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.”

— Edwin Markham

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