But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
ROBERT BROWNINGWho knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
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Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
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Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.
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You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.
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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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