"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good……" — Robert Browning
"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice."
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262 Quotes by Robert Browning
Robert Browning has 262 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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God is the perfect poet.
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Love is energy of life.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry…
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to…
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing…
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do…
— Steven Pinker
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— Shekhar Kapur
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can…
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— Cindy Chupack
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Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a…
— Camille Paglia
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We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
— Janette Turner Hospital
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