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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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In this world, who can do a thing, will not And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
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Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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How good is life, the mere living!
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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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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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Say not a small event! Why small? Costs it more pain that this ye call A great event should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
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