Muriel Strode

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Muriel Strode

American Author,

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Muriel Strode-Lieberman (1875–1964) was an American poet who primarily wrote in her pre-marriage name Muriel Strode.

Born in Bernadotte Township, Illinois, to a naturalist and physician, Strode moved to California at age 16. She started working as a stenographer and a typewriter and wrote poetry on the side. She later moved to New York for a career as a writer but returned to California when oil was discovered on land she owned. She then relocated to Arizona when her husband got ill with tuberculosis and lived there until death.

Strode’s poetry and writings got published in The Open Court and other popular periodicals of her day. Her notable works include My Little Book of Prayer (1904,) My Little Book of Life (1912,) A Soul’s Faring (1921,) and At the Roots of Grasses (1923.)

Strode’s famous quotation from the August 1903 edition of The Open Courtperiodical, “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail,” is similar to a famous quotation “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” The latter is widely ascribed to the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, but has not been located in his works.

NOTABLE QUOTES

It is no stigma to wear rags; the disgrace is in continuing to wear them.

Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

I do not bemoan misfortune. To me there is no misfortune. I welcome whatever comes; I go out gladly to meet it.

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Let my grave be unmarked: I fear not to be forgotten.

Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

There is hope for that genius who must overcome poverty, but there is almost none for that one who must overcome wealth.

A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.

A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

I would travel in all climes that I might return and tell you of the beauty of my own little garden plot. I would explore heaven and hell that I might come back and tell you what a charming place is the earth.

The earth shall yet surrender to him, and the fates shall do his will, who marches on, though the promised land proved to be but a mirage and the day of deliverance was cancelled. The gods shall yet anoint him, and the morning stars shall sing.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

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