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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
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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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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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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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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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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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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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
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