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To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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London
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Robert Barrett Browning
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Truth never hurt the teller.
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
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I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
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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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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
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All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
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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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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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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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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.
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He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
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O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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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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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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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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And gain is gain, however small.
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