Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
ROBERT BROWNINGAutumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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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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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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T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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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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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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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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