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Faultless to a fault.

— Robert Browning

More from Robert Browning

  1. Go practise if you please With men and women: leave a child alone For Christ's particular love's sake!
  2. Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
  3. O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire.
  4. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.
  5. So, take, and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in thy hand! Perfe…
  6. Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
  7. Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel? But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men.
  8. Love is energy of life.

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Topics in this quote

  • humanity
  • balance
  • character
  • flaw
  • irony
  • perfection

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