A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Quote by Robert Browning

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This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders.

This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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...

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...

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?

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch...

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch...

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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, -...

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

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

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

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...