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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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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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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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When I love most, love is disguised. In hate and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
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And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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