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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!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Fall

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Bidding, Done

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.82, Everyman's Library

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• Shun death, is my advice.

  Robert Browning

  Death, Advice

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

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• Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

  Robert Browning

  Done, Innocence, Virtue

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• I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

  Robert Browning

  Writing, Belief, Conviction

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.261, e-artnow sro

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• Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Baby, Cat

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 2

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• Hand
  Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, Eye, Heart

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.159, Wildside Press LLC

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• Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

  Robert Browning

  Sleep, Needs

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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