If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Quote by Robert Browning

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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart...

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart...

And gain is gain, however small

And gain is gain, however small

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders.

This is our master, famous, calm, and dead, Borne on our shoulders.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -...

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -...

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook...

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook...

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the...

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the...

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

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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty...

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty...

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he...

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he...

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...