If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
Robert BrowningRead
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Strive to exceed your limits and continually improve yourself.
This quote by Robert Browning encourages individuals to dream big and push beyond their current constraints. It emphasizes the importance of personal growth and the pursuit of excellence, suggesting that one should not only aim for goodness but continually strive to surpass it in every endeavor.
Themes
AspireImprovementExcellenceMotivationGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech to inspire students at graduation.
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I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.
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How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!
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How good is life, the mere living!
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