Edwin Arnold Quotes

#1. Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#2. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Edwin Arnold

#3. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Edwin Arnold

#4. What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

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#5. Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

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#6. The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

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#7. Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

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#8. We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

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#9. Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

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#10. Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,
Or any searcher know by mortal mind,
Veil after veil will lift
but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.

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#11. Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

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#12. For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

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#13. There is no caste in blood.

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#14. Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

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#15. One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

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#16. Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

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#17. Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

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#18. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

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#19. Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

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#20. No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

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#21. Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

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#22. Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers

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#23. A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

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#24. Yet who shall shut out Fate?

Edwin Arnold