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Robert Browning

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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?


— Robert Browning


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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.


— Robert Browning


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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.


— Robert Browning


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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.


— Robert Browning


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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.


— Robert Browning


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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.


— Robert Browning


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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.


— Robert Browning


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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?


— Robert Browning


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A minute's success pays the failure of years.


— Robert Browning


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God is the perfect poet.


— Robert Browning


#god #perfect #poet






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In these years Browning was fascinated by and learned from the art and atmosphere of Italy. The subject of the 16th century savant and alchemist was probably suggested to him by the Comte Amédée de Ripart-Monclar to whom it was dedicated. Browning then wrote two other plays one of which was not performed while the other failed Browning having fallen out with Macready.

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