18 Famous Quotes by Edwin Arnold
6/10/1832 - 3/24/1904
Also Known As:
Sir Edwin Arnold
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About Edwin Arnold
Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist.
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.
Love
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Somewhere There Waiteth
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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.
Life
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia
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Who doth right deeds
Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
Deeds
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 78)
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He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all this friends:
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine--it is not I.
Death
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: He Who Died at Azan
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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.
Goodness
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 273)
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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.
Life
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia
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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.
Meeting
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Book of Good Counsel
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That rich celestial music thrilled the air
From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged
Eastward and westward, making bright the night.
Music
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia (bk. IV, l. 418)
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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.
Help
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 109)
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A little rain will fill
The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.
Rain
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: The Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 215)
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The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!
Dew
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia (bk. VIII, last line)
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The sunbeams dropped
Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,
Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,
As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.
Twilight
Quotes, by Edwin Arnold , Source: Light of Asia (bk. II, l. 466)
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