Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
ROBERT BROWNINGPleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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Why stay on the earth except to grow.
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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.
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Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
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All’s love, yet all’s law.
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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
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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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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
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Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’
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Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
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Such ever was love’s way: to rise, it stoops.
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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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A minute of success pays for years of failure.
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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