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9 Quotes for 'Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)' in the Database.
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Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes
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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),
Topic: Butterflies
Source: Songs of the Sun-Lands--Isles of the Amazons (pt. III, st. 41)
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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.
Topic: Charity
Source: Charity
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Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
Topic: Cowards
Source: Ina (sc. 3)
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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.
Topic: Darkness
Source: From Sea to Sea (st. 4)
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"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.
Topic: Failure
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.
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He gave with a zest and he gave his best;
Give him the best to come.
Topic: Gifts
Source: Peter Cooper
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He gives twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]
- credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,
Topic: Gifts
Source: Peter Cooper
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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.
Topic: Midnight
Source: Ina (sc. 2)
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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),
Topic: Motherhood
Source: The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men
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