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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
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Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.
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And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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Love is the energy of life.
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The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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It 's wiser being good than bad It 's safer being meek than fierce It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.
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Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
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Women hate a debt as men a gift.
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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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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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What a thing friendship is - World without end.
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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
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