"All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Failure Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: For Those Who Fail

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And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray; For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand Is what you have given away. . . . . He gave with a zest and he gave his best; Give him the best to come.

Gifts Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Peter Cooper

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He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,

Gifts Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Peter Cooper

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Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.

Darkness Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: From Sea to Sea (st. 4)

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The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),

Butterflies Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Songs of the Sun-Lands--Isles of the Amazons (pt. III, st. 41)

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Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Cowards Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Ina (sc. 3)

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The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),

Motherhood Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men

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All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour In silence wrote on in the sand.

Charity Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Charity

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'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Midnight Quotes, by Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) , Source: Ina (sc. 2)

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