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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
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The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
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All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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Thought is the soul of act.
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Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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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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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so life's business being just the terrible choice.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Our aspirations are our responsibilities.
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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
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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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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.
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