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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.

— Robert Browning Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. | In a Balcony.

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The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

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Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"

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Inscribe all human effort with one word,
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The Ring and the Book (1868)

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

Men and Women (1855)

God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

Paracelsus (1835)

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