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 BROWNINGPleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
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Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
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At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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A minute of success pays for years of failure.
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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
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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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You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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