I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.
ROBERT BROWNINGTake 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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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o’ercomes doubt.
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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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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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When is man strong until he feels alone?
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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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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Most progress is most failure.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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