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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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...

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:...

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...

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

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...

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.

Love is energy of life.

Love is energy of life.

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...

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

God is the perfect poet.

God is the perfect poet.

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:...

But facts are facts and flinch not

But facts are facts and flinch not

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you...

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you...

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand...

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand...