Robert Browning ( 10 of 73 )
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, read more
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Day!
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure read more
Day!
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim.
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in read more
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking read more
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
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What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, read more
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.
