Oft times while he mused as motionless As the fixed rock his seat the squirrel leaped Upon his knee, the timid quail led forth Her brood between his feet, and blue doves pecked The rice-grains from the bowl beside his hand.
—Edwin Arnold
If one draw near to God with praise and prayer even half a cubit foot, God will go twenty leagues to meet him.
—Edwin Arnold
Topics: Prayer
But offer loving thoughts and acts to all.
—Edwin Arnold
The birds and beasts and creeping things ’tis writ Had sense of Buddha’s vast embracing love, And took the promise of his piteous speech.
—Edwin Arnold
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life; a moan, a sigh, a sob, or a storm, a strife.
—Edwin Arnold
Loving all things which live even as themselves.
—Edwin Arnold
Radiant with heavenly pity, lost in care For those he knew not, save as fellow-lives.
—Edwin Arnold
That thou mayst know What others will not that I love thee most Because I loved so well all living souls.
—Edwin Arnold
There is no caste in blood.
—Edwin Arnold
For death,
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life center.
—Edwin Arnold
Topics: Death
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
—Edwin Arnold
Topics: Love, Lovers
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
—Edwin Arnold
Topics: Sympathy
Nor (shall one) lay Upon the brow of innocent bound beasts One hair’s weight of that answer all must give For all things done amiss or wrongfully.
—Edwin Arnold
Unto the dumb lips of his flock he lent Sad pleading words, showing how man, who prays For mercy to the gods, is merciless.
—Edwin Arnold
Gentle and true, simple and kind was she, Noble of mien, with gracious speech to all, And gladsome looks a pearl of womanhood.
—Edwin Arnold
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
—Edwin Arnold
Topics: Freedom
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