A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning
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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.
Robert Browning
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
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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!
Robert Browning
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning