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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
Tags: warfare, persistence, inspiration

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Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
— Edwin Markham
Tags: only, moral, ideas, heart
Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.
— Edwin Markham
Tags: help, think, man, work
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
Tags: believe, fight, great, life
It is better to rust out than wear out.
— Edwin Markham
Tags: out, than, wear, better, wisdom
Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.
— Edwin Markham
Tags: down, spiritual, failure, alone
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