The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
Interpretation
Brotherhood is the ultimate expression of goodness in life.
In this quote, Edwin Markham elevates the concept of brotherhood, suggesting that it represents the highest form of goodness that one can achieve in life. It implies that the connections we forge with others, built on trust, support, and love, are the most valuable aspects of our existence and the ultimate goal we should strive for.
In practice
In a speech about community involvement, one might say, 'As Edwin Markham famously stated, 'the crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.'
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
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.
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
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.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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