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• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so
  Life's business being just the terrible choice....
• Thy Linking our England to his Italy.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 873...
• Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 1073...
• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 590...
• In the great right of an excessive wrong.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The other Half-Rome, Line 1055...
• Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, Pompilia, Line 357...
• It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth,--to mouths like mine, at least.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 842...
• As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth
  his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast....
• 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....