If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
ROBERT BROWNINGI 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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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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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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What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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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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I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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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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Why stay on the earth except to grow.
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When is man strong until he feels alone?
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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