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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

  Courage, Fall, Sleep

  'Asolando' (1889) 'Epilogue'

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• I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Doubt, Shows

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

  Robert Browning

  Responsibility, Aspiration

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• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

  Robert Browning

  Sea, Land, Break

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Truth, Heart

  Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.95, tredition

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• Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

  Robert Browning

  Adversity, Dizzy

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.322, Pearson Education

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• Other heights in other lives, God willing.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Height, Gods Will

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.693, Pearson Education

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• Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

  Robert Browning

  God, Race, Giants

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.149, Pearson Education

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

  Robert Browning

  Fate, Bears, Earth

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

  Robert Browning

  Morning, Heaven, World

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.180, Wordsworth Editions

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• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

  Robert Browning

  Life, White, Black

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 209

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• So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

  Robert Browning

  Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 7

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• O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

  Robert Browning

  Country, Heart, Land

  Robert Browning, Robert Browning (Dichter, Grossbritannien) (1995). “Men and women”

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• I do what many dream of, all their lives

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Action

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Practice, Perfection

  'Old Pictures in Florence' (1855) st. 17

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Heart, Endure

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Ignorance, Knowledge

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 482

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• A man in armour is his armour's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Slave, Armour

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.695, e-artnow sro

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• It was roses, roses, all the way,
  With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Mad, Rose

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.216, Pearson Education

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• Make us happy and you make us good.

  Robert Browning

  Happiness, Happy

  Robert Browning (1998). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring and the Book”, p.234, Oxford University Press

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• The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Stood Up

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Ocean, Yield, Average

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

  Robert Browning

  Tree, Three, Generations

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• Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

  Robert Browning

  Truth, Truth Is, Strikes

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

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• Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

  Robert Browning

  Mean, Men, Youth

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1056

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