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Robert Browning Quotes: Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
         

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?


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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.



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Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.





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