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.

Quote by Robert Browning

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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...

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

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...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

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...

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

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...

Faultless to a fault.

Faultless to a fault.

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

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

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.

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

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

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

God is the perfect poet.

God is the perfect poet.

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...

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, -...

I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting...

I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book...

Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book...