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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Plain
Acceptance
True
Best
Imperial
Sincerity

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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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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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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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God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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Truth never hurt the teller.
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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