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In this world, who can do a thing, will not And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
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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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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The heavens and earth stay as they were my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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