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

Quote by Robert Browning

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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...

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart...

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart...

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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...

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he...

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he...

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty...

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty...

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

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

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:...

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...

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

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:...

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?

My sun sets to rise again.

My sun sets to rise again.

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...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

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!

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...