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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.


Robert Browning

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ROBERT BROWNING I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
ROBERT BROWNING Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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