"Why comes temptation but for man to meet……" — Robert Browning
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
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Robert Browning
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262 Quotes by Robert Browning
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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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