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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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