Edwin Arnold quotes
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“No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.”
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“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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“There is no caste in blood.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.79, Routledge
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“Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1885). “The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems”
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“One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.783, e-artnow
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“The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.”
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“Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2010). “The Light of Asia: Or the Great Renunciation Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.
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“The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.80, Routledge
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“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”
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“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.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.34, Routledge
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“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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“Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.79, Routledge
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“Yet who shall shut out Fate?”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.42, Routledge
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“That what will come, and must come, shall come well.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.312, e-artnow
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“Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.”
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“For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1879). “The Light of Asia; Or, The Great Renunciation: The Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism”
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“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 ArnoldSource : "The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation".
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“A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.”
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“Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1892). “Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems”
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“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!”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2015). “The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita: Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna: One of the Great Religious Classics of All Time - Synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of moksha, and Raja Yoga & Samkhya philosophy”, p.11, e-artnow
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“Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235
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“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.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.312, e-artnow
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“Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”
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“Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.”
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“Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235
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“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.”
-- Edwin ArnoldSource : Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.352, e-artnow
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