John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Robert Browning. (1812–1889) (continued) |
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| Say not “a small event!” Why “small”? Costs it more pain that this ye call A “great event” should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed! |
| Pippa Passes. Introduction. |
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| God’s in his heaven: All’s right with the world. 1 |
| Pippa Passes. Part i. |
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| Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,— Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas. |
| Pippa Passes. Part ii. |
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| In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. |
| Pippa Passes. Part iii. |
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| All service ranks the same with God,— With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. |
| Pippa Passes. Part iv. |
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| I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,—the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,—Nature’s good And God’s. |
| A Soul’s Tragedy. Act. i. |
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| I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be. |
| A Soul’s Tragedy. Act ii. |
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| There’s a woman like a dewdrop, she’s so purer than the purest. |
| A Blot in the ’Scutcheon. Act i. Sc. iii. |
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| When is man strong until he feels alone? 2 |
| Colombe’s Birthday. Act iii. |
| Note 1. See Holmes, page 691. [back] |
| Note 2. Ibsen: The Enemy of the People. The strongest man on earth is he who stands alone. [back] |