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Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
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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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
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Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.
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Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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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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The heavens and earth stay as they were my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
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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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All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
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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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Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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Imperfection means perfection hid.
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Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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