Joaquin Miller Quotes

• In men whom men condemn as ill
  I find so much of goodness still,
  In men whom men pronounce divine
  I find so much of sin and blot,
  I do not dare to draw a line
  Between the two, where God has not.

  Joaquin Miller

  Life And Love, Men, Two

  Joaquin Miller (1996). “Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History”, p.415, Heyday

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• Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

  Joaquin Miller

  Lonely, Heart, Winter

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• Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

  Joaquin Miller

  Father, Rain, Sunshine

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• All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

  Joaquin Miller

  Hands, Generosity, Cold

  Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”

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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.

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  Mother, Men, Battle

  Joaquin Miller (1975). “Joaquin Miller's Poems”, New York : AMS Press

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• UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW
  THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN

  Joaquin Miller

  Pain, Rain, Sunshine

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• I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

  Joaquin Miller

  Dream, Drinking, Wine

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.8

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• Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

  Joaquin Miller

  Sail

  Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”

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• Knowledge is
  Bought only with a weary care,
  And wisdom means a world of pain.

  Joaquin Miller

  Pain, Knowledge, Mean

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.198

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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.

  Joaquin Miller

  Failure, Winning, Years

  Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”

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• God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

  Joaquin Miller

  Song, Stars, Profound

  Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.25

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• There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.

  Joaquin Miller

  Morrow

  Joaquin Miller (1975). “Joaquin Miller's Poems”, New York : AMS Press

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• That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

  Joaquin Miller

  Men, Self, Mortals

  Joaquin Miller (1908). “Joaquin Miller's Poems ...”

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• The soul that feeds on books alone -
  I count that soul exceeding small
  That lives alone by book and creed, -
  A soul that has not learned to read.

  Joaquin Miller

  Book, Soul, Creeds

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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• The biggest dog has been a pup.

  Joaquin Miller

  Dog, Pet, Pups

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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.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wall, Moon, Purple

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• Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

  Joaquin Miller

  Honest, Enough, Physiognomy

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• O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

  Joaquin Miller

  Betrayal, Regret, Women

  Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.175

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

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Men, Coward

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107

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• He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.

  Joaquin Miller

  Giving

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• Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

  Joaquin Miller

  Soul, Fever, Fame

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118

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• I saw the lightnings gleaming rod.
  Reach forth and write upon the sky
  The awful autograph of God.

  Joaquin Miller

  Writing, Sky, Lightning

  "Shadows of Shasta". Book by Joaquin Miller. Epigraph, 1881.

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• Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.

  Joaquin Miller

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

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• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• Man's books are but a climbing stair,
  Lain step by step, like stairs of stone;
  The stairway here, the temple there -
  Man's lampad honor, and his trust,
  The God who called him from the dust.

  Joaquin Miller

  Book, Men, Climbing

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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