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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.

Edwin Markham

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Edwin Markham
Age: 87 †
Born: 1852
Born: April 23
Died: 1940
Died: March 7
Poet
Writer
Oregon City
Oregon
Charles Edward Anson Markham
Make
Choose
Rests
Men
Lose
Torn
Life
Leave
Drawn
Loses
Tragic
Choices
Till
Winning
Loneliness
Free
Guess
Fateful
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Choice
Upward

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.
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There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.
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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
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At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God's Palm.
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Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
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To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
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He fed his spirit with the bread of books
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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 at the end, 'The dream is true!'
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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.
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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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Choices are the hinges of destiny.
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That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
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The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
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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
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No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.
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Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
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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.
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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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