John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Robert Browning. (18121889) (continued)
7099 Italy, my Italy! Queen Marys saying serves for me (When fortunes malice Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it Italy.
De Gustibus. ii.
7100 Thats the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.
Home-Thoughts from Abroad. ii.
7101 God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.
Saul. vi.
7102 How good is mans life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Saul. ix.
7103 T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.
Saul. xviii.
7104 O woman-country! 1 wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earths male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
By the Fireside. vi.
7105 That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
By the Fireside. xxiii.
7106 If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
By the Fireside. xlvi.
7107 Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Two in the Campagna. xii.