Robert Browning - Life Quotes

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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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I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

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Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead,
Accents uncertain:
'Time to taste life,' another would have said,
'Up with the curtain!'

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The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

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…I feel for the common chord again…
The C Major of this life.

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He looked at her, as a lover can;
She looked at him, as one who awakes:
The past was a sleep, and her life began.

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