Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
They have chiseled on my stone the words:'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.
Edgar Lee Masters
And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest,
Writers of music and tellers of stories
Sit at his feet,
And hear him sing of the fall of Troy.
Edgar Lee Masters
In age I knew the mountains
But my weary wings could not follow my vision --
Genius is wisdom and youth.
Edgar Lee Masters
You had cured my diseased soul.
Edgar Lee Masters
The pyramid of my life was nought but a dune,
Barren and formless, spoiled at last by the storm.
Edgar Lee Masters
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must and for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters
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