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

Quote by Robert Browning

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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...

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook...

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook...

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:...

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

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...

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...

Love is energy of life.

Love is energy of life.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

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

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

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.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious...

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious...

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

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

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