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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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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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Smiling the boy fell dead.
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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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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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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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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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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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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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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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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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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My sun sets to rise again.
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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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Our aspirations are our responsibilities.
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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
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