I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
ROBERT BROWNINGGo practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!
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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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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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Most progress is most failure.
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Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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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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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.
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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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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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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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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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Who knows most, doubts most.
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I judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’
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Truth is within ourselves.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
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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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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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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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