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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.
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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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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
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Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
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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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When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
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A lion may die of an ass's kick.
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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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Shun death, is my advice.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
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Imperfection means perfection hid.
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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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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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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What a thing friendship is - World without end.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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