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• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, Noses

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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• All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

  Robert Browning

  God, Puppets, Lasts

  'Pippa Passes' (1841) epilogue ad fin.

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• Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

  Robert Browning

  Adventure, Two, Preparation

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• Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

  Robert Browning

  Eden, Apples, Curiosity

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.741, Pearson Education

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• Imperfection means perfection hid.

  Robert Browning

  Mean, Perfection, Imperfection

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.349, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Sleep, Strive

  'A Woman's Last Word' (1855) st. 1

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• Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

  Robert Browning

  Atheist, Writing, Atheism

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 395

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• Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, Bud

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 1, l. 476

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• Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.

  Robert Browning

  Romantic, Believe, Flower

  'In a Gondola' (1842) l. 49

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• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Success, Men, Deeds Done

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Men, White

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1235

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• Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
  So shall they be fulfilled.

  Robert Browning

  Fate, Fulfilled

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.749, e-artnow sro

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• Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, World, Earth

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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• Sorrow, the heart must bear,
  Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
  Many a circumstance, at least,
  Touches the very breast.
  For those
  Whom any sent away,--he knows:
  And in the live man's stead,
  Armor and ashes reach
  The house of each.

  Robert Browning

  Home, Heart, Men

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

  Robert Browning

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.

  Robert Browning

  Reality, Care, Sole

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Broken, Perfect

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.

  Robert Browning

  Forever, Losing, Lost

  Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.86, tredition

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• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

  Robert Browning

  Best Effort, Haunting, Curse

  Robert Browning (1989). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book”

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• Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

  Robert Browning

  Morning, England, April

  'Home-Thoughts, from the Sea' (1845)

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• The peerless cup afloat
  Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
  Swims bearing high above her head.

  Robert Browning

  Lakes, Nymphs, Swim

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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• I, painting from myself and to myself,
  Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame
  Or their praise either.

  Robert Browning

  Acceptance, Men, Blame

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

  Robert Browning

  Song, Play, Survival

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.281

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• Talent should minister to genius.

  Robert Browning

  Genius, Talent, Ministers

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.97, Wildside Press LLC

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• How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Heart, Men

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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