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But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear The rest may reason and welcome 'tis we musicians know.

Robert Browning

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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
Browning
Whispers
Musicians
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Ears
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Rest
May
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I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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