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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Reality
Care
Whole
Sole

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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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