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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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.... (more Robert Browning quotes)
| Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by Robert Browning, James F. Loucks, and Andrew M. Stauffer | |
| Robert Heinlein's Shadow: "The Seven Starlings" and "How Aeneas Browning Got Rich" by Jubal Harshaw | |
| Robert Browning: Poems (Highbridge Classics) by Robert Browning |