More from Robert Browning

  1. Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
  2. He concentrated on the special souls of men; seeking God in a series of personal interviews.
  3. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.
  4. He is called an optimist; but the word suggests a calculated contentment which was not in the least one of his vices. What he really was wa…
  5. Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
  6. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiet…
  7. Faultless to a fault.
  8. Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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