“The world is won by those who let it go.” — Edwin Markham | V2Melody

“The world is won by those who let it go.”

Suggesting that freedom and fulfilment require release of possessiveness · Saying commonly attributed to Edwin Markham

About Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham

23 April 1852–7 March 1940

In the last week of December 1898, an aging schoolteacher in California completed a poem that would transform American literature and launch a national debate about labor, justice, and the human cost of industrial progress. Within weeks, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe" catapulted him from obscurity to…

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“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”

Calling for ethical conduct rather than merely remembered principles · Saying commonly attributed to Edwin Markham

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone.”

Emphasising shared human destiny and mutual responsibility · Commonly attributed to Edwin Markham

“We are blind until we see that in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.”

Measuring achievement by its power to develop human character · Commonly attributed to Edwin Markham

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