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Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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Smiling the boy fell dead.
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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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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
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O never star Was lost here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time I press God's lamp Close to my breast its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.
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But there are times when patience proves at fault.
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We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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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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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
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