Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
knives may sometimes
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
wisdom book reading
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
wrath long dollars
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.
arlington cry ends
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
death expression arlington
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
thanksgiving thankful gratitude
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
live-life games arlington
Life is the game that must be played.
american-businessman anyone soon
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
american-businessman begins knows later left sooner
For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.