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How good is life, the mere living!
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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So free we seem, so fettered we are!
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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Without love, our earth is a tomb
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What if we still ride on, we two With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity — Robert Browning
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
— Robert Browning
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
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Never the time and the placeAnd the loved one all together. — Robert Browning
Truth never hurt the teller.
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Talent should minister to genius.
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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.
— Robert Browning
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
— Robert Browning
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
— Robert Browning
Hold On. Hope Hard.
— Robert Browning
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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Our business was done at the river's brink;
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
— Robert Browning
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
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When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday
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I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
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God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
— Robert Browning
Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
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The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.
— Robert Browning
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
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You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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grow old with me. the best is yet to be.the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
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Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.
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All service is the same with God.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning
One taste of the old time sets all to rights.
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
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All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
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A minute of success pays for years of failure.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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A man's reach should exceed his grasp
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What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
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This world's no blot for us,Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. — Robert Browning
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
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When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
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God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.
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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.
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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?
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When pain ends, gain ends too.
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Life is an empty dream.
— Robert Browning
Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
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What joy is better than news of friends?
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anewThe buttercups, the little children's dower. — Robert Browning
How very hard it is to be a Christian!
— Robert Browning
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
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As if true prideWere not also humble! — Robert Browning
Why stay we on earth except to grow?
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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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I find earth not gray but rosy;Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue. — Robert Browning
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
— Robert Browning
What so wild as words are?
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Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once. — Robert Browning
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream
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Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
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And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
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T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
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Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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