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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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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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Love is the energy of life.
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Most progress is most failure.
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Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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The heavens and earth stay as they were my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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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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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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Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
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If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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Truth is within ourselves.
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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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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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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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