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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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Past
Gained
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
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Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
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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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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
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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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O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
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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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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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All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
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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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Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
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