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In the great right of an excessive wrong. (Robert Browning)
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. View quote
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But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty. View quote
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The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. View quote
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There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. View quote
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The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head. View quote
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Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die? View quote
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. View quote
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So may a glory from defect arise. View quote
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He said true things, but called them by the wrong names. View quote
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I judge people by what they might be,-not are, nor will be. (Robert Browning)
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's. View quote
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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. View quote
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What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. View quote
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. View quote
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Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy. View quote
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Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again How strange it seems, and new. View quote
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There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest. A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. View quote
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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. View quote
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Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages. View quote
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For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. (Robert Browning)
Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one songand in my brain I sing it Drew one angelborne, see, on my bosom. View quote
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It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true. View quote
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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, : Trust, that's purer than pearl, - Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, - all were for me : In the kiss of one girl. :* "Summum Bonum" (1889). View quote
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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf. View quote
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