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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
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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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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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth
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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
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How good is life, the mere living!
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The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.
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Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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