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In three words I can sum up everything I've ever learned about life: It goes on.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Paracelsus
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

In a Balcony
This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

Youth and Art
If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.
The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

A Death in the Desert
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Saul
For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

A Death in the Desert
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