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Robert Browning Hamilton Quotes






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'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.
[Sorrow]

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.


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