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Quotes from The Building of the City Beautiful — Joaquin Miller

1837–1913 United States

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

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

I count the columned waves at war
With Titan elements; and they,
In martial splendor, storm the bar
And shake the world, these bits of spray.

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

O star-built bridge, broad milky way!
O star-lit, stately, splendid span!
If but one star should cease to stay
And prop its shoulders to God's plan —
The man who lives for self, I say,
He lives for neither God nor man.

The Building of the City Beautiful (1905)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joaquin Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.