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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Robert Browning. (1812–1889) (continued)
 
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    Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary’s saying serves for me
  (When fortune’s malice
  Lost her Calais):
“Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’”
          De Gustibus. ii.
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    That’s 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.
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    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.
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    How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
          Saul. ix.
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    ’T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.
          Saul. xviii.
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    O woman-country! 1 wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth’s male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.
          By the Fireside. vi.
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              That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.
          By the Fireside. xxiii.
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    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.
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              Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
          Two in the Campagna. xii.
 
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