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The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few places where all may meet as equals under sun or rain; but only a John Bunyan could adequately portray the danger of the cities with their pitfalls for the young unguarded feet.
— Edwin Markham
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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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