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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
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A man in armor is his armor's slave.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe!
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Thought is the soul of act.
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It 's wiser being good than bad It 's safer being meek than fierce It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.
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The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
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All's love, yet all's law.
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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You never know what life means till you die even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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Praise is deeper than the lips
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
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That's the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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