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" Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. "
Robert Browning
Does
Man
Ambition
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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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" A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. "
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" It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. "
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" Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. "
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" No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. "
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" So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. "
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" All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. "
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" Ignorance is not innocence but sin. "
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" God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. "
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" Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. "
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You
Sympathy
" 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! "
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Joy
" 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. "
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Men
Climb
" Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? "
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Alone
Words
Fail
" Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? "
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Triumph
Temptation
Meet
" 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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Fight
End
God
" That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! "
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Twice
" What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? "
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Wonder
I Wonder
Had
" If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. "
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Beauty
Best
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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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Lies
How
Before
" Oh, to be in England now that April's there. "
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England
Now
Oh
" On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. "
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Round
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Earth
" Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. "
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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. "
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