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.

Quote by Robert Browning

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I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this...

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -...

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -...

Love is energy of life.

Love is energy of life.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the...

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the...

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God...

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God...

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave...

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave...

Faultless to a fault.

Faultless to a fault.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet

Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.

He who dares, wins.

He who dares, wins.

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if...

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if...