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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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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Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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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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Women hate a debt as men a gift.
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!
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