English - Poet | May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning
ManAmbitionWouldDoes
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
WiseSongThinkYouNeverFirst
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
StrengthSeaLandUpBreaksLoaded
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
LateRomeRoundSoonEvery
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
OldRatherShockedThanBeforeVery
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.
BusinessGreatMenClimbBirds
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
BeautyGodBestSimpleYouGet
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
RoseNowJuneLeavesStripBound
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
EyesPurposeLaughFallWhat IfUp
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
LifeGreatRestFateAimTry
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
LifePastWayLiesHowBefore
Love is energy of life.
LifeLoveLove IsEnergy
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