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Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
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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O never star Was lost here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time I press God's lamp Close to my breast its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.
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How good is life, the mere living!
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Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
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Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
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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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Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
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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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Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
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Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine but of the childish not a touch or taint.
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To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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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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