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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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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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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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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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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'
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Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
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Imperfection means perfection hid.
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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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Genius has somewhat of the infantine but of the childish not a touch or taint.
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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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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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so life's business being just the terrible choice.
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
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