Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Quotes from Men and Women — Robert Browning
1812–1889 England
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If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
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I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
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I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing.
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He said true things, but called them by the wrong names.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.