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Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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In this world, who can do a thing, will not And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
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God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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All's love, yet all's law.
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Say not a small event! Why small? Costs it more pain that this ye call A great event should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
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To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
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Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
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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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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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