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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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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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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.
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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
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The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
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Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.
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