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Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
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Love is the energy of life.
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Who knows most, doubts most.
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I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
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God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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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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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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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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All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
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Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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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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Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
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