Maxioms by Robert Browning
 Hand
 Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
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 Hand
 Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
   And grow one in the sense of this world's life. 
 Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
 Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
  As, read more 
 Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
 Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
  As, God be thanked! I do not. 
 Day!
 Faster and more fast,
  O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
   Boils, pure read more 
 Day!
 Faster and more fast,
  O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
   Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim. 
 No, when the fight begins within himself,
 A man's worth something.  
 No, when the fight begins within himself,
 A man's worth something. 
 Why comes temptation but for man to meet
 And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
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 Why comes temptation but for man to meet
 And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
  And so be pedestaled in triumph?