"'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd."
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Robert Browning quotes (page 17 of 17)
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"Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
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"Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?."
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"All service is the same with God."
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"One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it."
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"Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose."
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"Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years."
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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."
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"Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride."
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"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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"I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios."
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"Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world."
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"Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense."
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