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• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the bea
  God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be....
• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
  No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forge...
• Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
  So, I was afraid! -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Instans Tyrannus, vii...
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Rabbi Ben Ezra
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- In a Balcony...
• This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Youth and Art, xvii...