Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning
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- What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
- What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
- A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
- Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
- Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.