Top 25 Quotes by Joaquin Miller of 30 - Page 2

The living grave of crime.

Prison, Crime, Graves

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

Angel, Pride, Men

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

Joaquin Miller

Lying, Book, Men

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

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

Butterfly, Clouds, Snow

Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.66