In due time, let him critically learn
How he lives; and, the more he gets to know
Of his own life's adaptabilities,
The more joy-giving will his life become.
(Cleon)
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I hear you reproach, 'But delay was best, For their end was a crime.' Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view ...... Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Isthe unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.Robert Browning
Let us not always say Spite of this flesh today I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole' As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'
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Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ.
Robert Browning
He who did most, shall bear most the strongest shall stand the most weak.
Robert Browning
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Robert Browning
Other heights in other lives, God willing.
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