Edwin Arnold Quotes & Sayings

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 Arnold

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. — Edwin Arnold

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. — Edwin Arnold

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop! — Edwin Arnold

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 Arnold

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. — Edwin Arnold

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing. — Edwin Arnold

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. — Edwin Arnold

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. — Edwin Arnold

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

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. — Edwin Arnold

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 Arnold

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. — Edwin Arnold

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

Yet who shall shut out Fate? — Edwin Arnold

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 Arnold

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us. — Edwin Arnold

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

There is no caste in blood. — Edwin Arnold

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field. — Edwin Arnold

Then, O King! the God, so saying,
Stood, to Pritha's Son displaying
All the splendour, wonder, dread
Of His vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from His perfect Presence
Breaths of every subtle essence
Of all heavenly odours; shedding
Blinding brilliance; overspreading-
Boundless, beautiful- all spaces
With His all-regarding faces;
So He showed! If there should rise
Suddenly within the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One's
Majesty and radiance dreamed of! — Edwin Arnold

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. — Edwin Arnold

Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. — Edwin Arnold

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. — Edwin Arnold

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. — Edwin Arnold