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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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease...

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease...

You've got a way with me. Somehow you got me to believe in everything that...

You've got a way with me. Somehow you got me to believe in everything that...