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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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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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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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Women hate a debt as men a gift.
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
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Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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But there are times when patience proves at fault.
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What a thing friendship is - World without end.
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The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
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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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Look not down but up!
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
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Shun death, is my advice.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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When I love most, love is disguised. In hate and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
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Imperfection means perfection hid.
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Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
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