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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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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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Shun death, is my advice.
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear The rest may reason and welcome 'tis we musicians know.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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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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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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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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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.
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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
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