More from "Summum Bonum" (1889)
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
- A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
- Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
- Deeds let escape are never to be done.
- Error has no end.
- Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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