39 quotes found
Poet · American
American poet
“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”
“It is better to rust out than wear out.”
“He fed his spirit with the bread of books”
“Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.”
“The crest and crowning of all good Life's final star is Brotherhood.”
“The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.”
“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 poem " Outwitted”
“Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used Gods way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out lifes battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword...”
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
“It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.”
“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. ”
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.”
“Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.”
“Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken swo...”
“There is a destiny that makes us brothers:None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.I care not what his temples or his creeds,One thing holds firm a...”
“I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.”
“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”