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• 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?

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  Feet, Literature, Earth

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• 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.

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  Giving, Silence, Generations

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• 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

  Love, Truth, Law

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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.

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  Fighting, Broken, Soldier

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• By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

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  Rights, Two, Slave

  Edwin Markham (1900). “The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author”

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• I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

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  Loneliness, Winning, Men

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• The thing that is incredible is life itself.

  Edwin Markham

  Incredibles, Green Earth

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• At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Sky, Cyclones

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• The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

  Edwin Markham

  Running, Land, Perfect

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

  Edwin Markham

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Edwin Markham (1920). “Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse”

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

  Edwin Markham

  Clever, Men, Poetic

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• 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

  Heart, Sky, White

  Edwin Markham (1899). “The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems”, W. Briggs ; New York : Doubleday & McClure Company

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• Lincoln, the Man of the People

  Edwin Markham

  Men, People, He Man

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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