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Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
-Robert Browning
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Ambition
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
-Robert Browning
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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
-Robert Browning
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
-Robert Browning
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Art
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No sketches first, no studies, that
-Robert Browning, The Faultless Painter (Andrea del Sarto, l. 78, Men and Women, vol. 2), 1855
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Bravery
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
-Robert Browning
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Control
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When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
-Robert Browning
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Curiosity
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
-Robert Browning
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Death
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It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
And called himself the monarch of the world;
Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
Because the play was done, to shift himself,
Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
The moment he had shut the closet door,
By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
And whose part he presumed to play just now.
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
-Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology, 1855
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Defeat
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
-Robert Browning
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Desires
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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
-Robert Browning
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Discovery
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
-Robert Browning, from Andrea Del Sarto, first published in Men and Women, 1855
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Effort
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
-Robert Browning
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Evangelism
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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
-Robert Browning
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Freedom
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So free we seem, so fettered we are!
-Robert Browning
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Hope
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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
-Robert Browning
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
-Robert Browning
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Inspirational
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Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
-Robert Browning
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Life
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
-Robert Browning
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Love
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
-Robert Browning
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Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand Who saith,
http://www.bartleby.com/42/678.html
-Robert Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra
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Mother
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
-Robert Browning
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Optimism
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My sun sets to rise again.
-Robert Browning
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Potential
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
-Robert Browning
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Profit
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And gain is gain, however small.
-Robert Browning
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