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The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
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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And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth
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Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
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Love is the energy of life.
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
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What a thing friendship is - World without end.
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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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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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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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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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