Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

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On Fight:

When the fight begins within himself,
A man 's worth something.

Men and Women. Bishop Blougram's Apology

On Intention:

'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.

A Death in the Desert

On Intention:

'Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Saul

On Time:

There's a new tribunal now,
Higher than God's the educated man's!

The Ring and the Book

On Paradise:

Lose who may I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!

One Way of Love

On Poet:

God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

Paracelsus

On World:

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

Pippa Passes

On Body:

The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul, no!

A Death in the Desert

On Forget:

Good, to forgive;
Best, to forget!
Living, we fret;
Dying, we live.

La Saisiaz

On God:

Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

Paracelsus
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