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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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A man in armor is his armor's slave.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
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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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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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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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That's the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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Say not a small event! Why small? Costs it more pain that this ye call A great event should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
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Look not down but up!
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Thought is the soul of act.
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Most progress is most failure.
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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 see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
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