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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

Love is energy of life.

Love is energy of life.

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

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

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...

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

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

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...

My sun sets to rise again.

My sun sets to rise again.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

But facts are facts and flinch not

But facts are facts and flinch not

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Perfectly fulfilled and famous are those, in whose minds the Supreme Lord God abides. Their...

Perfectly fulfilled and famous are those, in whose minds the Supreme Lord God abides. Their...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...