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"Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse."
To Robert Browning.
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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
To Robert Browning.
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"Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose."
Sordello. Book vi.
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"That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were."
Paracelsus. Part i.
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"Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart."
Paracelsus. Part i.
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"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,--what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."
Paracelsus. Part i.
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"Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver,-- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge."
Paracelsus. Part i.
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"God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations."
Paracelsus. Part ii.
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"The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride."
Paracelsus. Part iv.
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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."
Paracelsus. Part v.
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"Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet."
Paracelsus. Part v.
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"Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!"
Pippa Passes. Introduction.
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"God 's in his heaven: All 's right with the world."
Pippa Passes. Part i.
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"Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,-- Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas."
Pippa Passes. Part ii.
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"In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now."
Pippa Passes. Part iii.
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"All service ranks the same with God,-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first."
Pippa Passes. Part iv.
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"I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,--Nature's good And God's."
A Soul's Tragedy. Act i.
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"Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,--not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,--not are, nor will be."
A Soul's Tragedy. Act ii.
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"There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest."
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Act i. Sc. iii.
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"When is man strong until he feels alone?"
Colombe's Birthday. Act iii.
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"When the fight begins within himself, A man 's worth something."
Men and Women. Bishop Blougram's Apology.
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"The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea."
Cleon.
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"And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again."
Cleon.
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"Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays!"
Cleon.
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"Rafael made a century of sonnets."
One Word More. ii.
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"Other heights in other lives, God willing."
One Word More. xii.
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"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides,--one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!"
One Word More. xvii.
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"Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song--and in my brain I sing it; Drew one angel--borne, see, on my bosom!"
One Word More. xix.
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"The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead."
Count Gismond. xiii.
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"Over my head his arm he flung Against the world."
Count Gismond. xix.
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"Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid!"
Instans Tyrannus. vii.
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"Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar."
Waring. ii.
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"Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride."
The last Ride together. vii.
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"When the liquor 's out, why clink the cannikin?"
The Flight of the Duchess. xvi.
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"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one,-- His hundred 's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That has the world here--should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find him."
A Grammarian's Funeral.
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"Lofty designs must close in like effects."
A Grammarian's Funeral.
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"Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years."
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came. xxxiii.
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"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."
The Lost Leader. i.
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"We shall march prospering,--not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,--not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,--while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire."
The Lost Leader. ii.
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"They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store."
Old Pictures in Florence. xvi.
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"What 's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes."
Old Pictures in Florence. xvii.
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"Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'""
De Gustibus. ii.
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"That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture."
Home-Thoughts from Abroad. ii.
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"God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here."
Saul. vi.
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"How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
Saul. ix.
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"'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do."
Saul. xvii.
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"O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead."
By the Fireside. vi.
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"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it."
By the Fireside. xxiii.
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"If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far."
By the Fireside. xlvi.
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"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
Two in the Campagna. xii.
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