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Life is a chase,
And man the hunter, always following on,
With hounds of rushing thought or fiery sense,
Some hidden truth or beauty, fleeting still
For ever through the thick-leaved coverts deep
And wind-worn wolds of life.

— Lewis Morris The Epic of Hades (1877)

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How far high failure overleaps the bound
Of low successes.

The Epic of Hades (1877)

Knowledge is a steep which few may climb,
While Duty is a path which all may tread.

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Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.

What power was this—chance, will you say? But chance, what else can it mean
Than the hidden Cause of things by human reason unseen?

Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.

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