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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!”
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Men and Women and Other Poems
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Men and Women and Other Poems
“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
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“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”
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“My sun sets to rise again.”
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“Paracelsus
At times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages’ way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out — not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again.”
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At times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages’ way,
And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out — not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again.”
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“Love is the energy of life.”
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“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
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“I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”
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“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”
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“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
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“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
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“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
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“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”
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“When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.”
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“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
― Browning's Paracelsus: being the text of Browning's poem
― Browning's Paracelsus: being the text of Browning's poem
“The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm;”
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The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm;”
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“God is the perfect poet.”
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“On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.”
― Dramatic Lyrics
― Dramatic Lyrics
“What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth —
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”
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With all its art, verse, music, worth —
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”
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“Without love, our earth is a tomb”
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“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”
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“ Life In Love
Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!”
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Escape me?
Never---
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me---
Ever
Removed!”
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“I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.”
― Paracelus
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.”
― Paracelus
“The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”
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Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”
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“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —
And thus we half-men struggle.”
― Robert Browning's Poetry
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —
And thus we half-men struggle.”
― Robert Browning's Poetry
“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents”
― The Poems of Robert Browning
― The Poems of Robert Browning
“A lion may die of an ass's kick.”
― Robert Browning's Poetry
― Robert Browning's Poetry
