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Lofty designs must close in like effects. (Robert Browning)
Truth is within ourselves. View quote
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! View quote
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In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. View quote
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What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. View quote
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Look not thou down but up. View quote
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Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose. View quote
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Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. View quote
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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. View quote
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The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. View quote
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They are perfect how elsethey shall never change We are faulty why notwe have time in store. (Robert Browning)
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third One near one is too far. View quote
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How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. View quote
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Progress is The law of life man is not Man as yet. View quote
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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. View quote
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And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small. View quote
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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. View quote
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Over my head his arm he flung Against the world. (Robert Browning)
When is man strong until he feels alone Colombe's Birthday. View quote
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete. View quote
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. View quote
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O woman-country wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead. View quote
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