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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!  
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.  
And gain is gain, however small.  
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay...  
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds...  
Faultless to a fault.  
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for ...  
God is the perfect poet.   Poetry
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.   Age
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the hea...  
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.  
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing...  
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, th...  
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face...  
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambiti...   Business
Love is energy of life.  
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.  
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.  
My sun sets to rise again.  
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!  
O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird and all a wonder and a wild des...  
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.  
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.  
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubte...  
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather t...  
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.  
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.   Love
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should...  
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. ...  
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we ...  
We loved, sir - used to meet: how sad and bad and mad it was - but the...  
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?  
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.  
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, wha...  
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, ...  
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.   Music
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to nev...