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.
I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.
I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.
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