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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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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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And gain is gain, however small.
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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
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I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
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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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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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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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When I love most, love is disguised. In hate and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
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Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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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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All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
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