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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?
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Robert Barrett Browning
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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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He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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A lion may die of an ass's kick.
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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe!
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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.
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The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
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Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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