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• What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Sweet, Names

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

  Robert Browning

  Dies, Conditions

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Heaven, Bakers

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• In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

  Robert Browning

  Believe, Lasts, Firsts

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.518, Pearson Education

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• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Song, Thinking

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 14 (1845)

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• Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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• O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, World, Made

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.18, Pearson Education

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• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Heaven, Sabbath

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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• We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

  Robert Browning

  Littles, Lasts, Little Things

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.467, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

  Robert Browning

  Spring, Angel, Heaven

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.55, Wordsworth Editions

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• No work begun shall ever pause for death.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Pauses

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.289, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!

  Robert Browning

  Delight, Today, Pleasure

  Robert Browning (1840). “Sordello [a poem].”, p.232

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• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

  Robert Browning

  Age, Youth, Aging

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Fall, Doe

  Robert Browning, Augustine Birrell (1915). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Next, Trouble

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.14, Everyman's Library

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• All good things
  Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Flesh, Helping

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

  Robert Browning

  Truth, Glasses, Done

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.160, Pearson Education

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• A lion may die of an ass's kick.

  Robert Browning

  Lions, May, Ass

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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

  Robert Browning

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

  Robert Browning

  Giving, Perfect, Soul

  Robert Browning, “Now!”

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• Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Needs, World

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
  All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Brother, Thinking

  Robert Browning (1863). “A blot in the 'scutcheon. The return of the Druses. Luria. A soul's tragedy. Dramatic romances and lyrics”, p.34

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• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

  Robert Browning

  Queens, Heart, Lost

  'De Gustibus' (1855) pt. 2, l. 39

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