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Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Robert Barrett Browning
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe!
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Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
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The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
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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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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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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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Most progress is most failure.
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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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A lion may die of an ass's kick.
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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
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And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
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Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
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