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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.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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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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Imperfection means perfection hid.
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Smiling the boy fell dead.
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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