Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Quote by Robert Browning

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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

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...

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:...

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...

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

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 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...

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

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.

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...

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

And gain is gain, however small

And gain is gain, however small

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...