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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
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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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Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.
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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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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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The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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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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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
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You never know what life means till you die even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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