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!
ROBERT BROWNINGLofty designs must close in like effects.
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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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Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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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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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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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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Who knows most, doubts most.
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God is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.
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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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My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
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Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.
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