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A lion may die of an ass's kick.
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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Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
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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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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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Faultless to a fault.
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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In this world, who can do a thing, will not And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
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