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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
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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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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
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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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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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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
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