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Dichter (England, 1812 - 1889).

Robert Browning · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Robert Browning wäre heute 212 Jahre, 5 Monate, 25 Tage oder 77.610 Tage alt.

Geboren am 07.05.1812
Gestorben am 12.12.1889
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

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• Imperfection means perfection hid.

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• In the great right of an excessive wrong.

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• In the natural fog of the good man's mind.

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• Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.

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• It all comes to the same thing at the end.

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

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• It was roses, roses, all the way.

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• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me- (When fortune's malice Lost her-Calais)- Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, 'Italy'.

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• June reared the bunch of flowers you carry from seeds of April's sowing.

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• Just for a handful of silver he left us, just for a riband to stick in his coat.

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• Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, - And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again,- The grand Perhaps!

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• Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork.

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• Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop, Marched them along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song. God for King Charles! Pym and such carles To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles!

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• Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before, Love, -Only sleep!

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• Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him-still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.

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• Look at the end of work, contrast The petty done, the undone vast, This present of theirs with the hopeful past!

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• Love is energy of life.

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• Make us happy and you make us good.

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• Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

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