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Robert Browning Hamilton
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#God
#Man
#Progress
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Mind
#Measure
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Man
#Fight
#Worth
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Passion
#Infinite
#Pain
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Strength
#Land
#Sea
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#God
#Art
#Day
#Earth
#Heaven
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Man
#Temptation
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Character
#Love
#Hope
#Fear
#Faith
#Humanity
'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Man
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#God
#Succeed
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Art
#Truth
#Glory
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Ignorance
#Innocence
#Sin
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Man
#Heaven
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Sympathy
#Autumn
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Life
#Past
#Lies
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#God
#Earth
#Soul
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Rome
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#God
#Justice
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Death
#Youth
#Age
#Dream
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Robert Browning Hamilton,
#Now
#June