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 BROWNINGLofty designs must close in like effects.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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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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Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
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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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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
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When is man strong until he feels alone?
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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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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Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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Earth is crammed with heavens.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
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Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’
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