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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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    I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,
I ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
          Paracelsus. Part i.
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    Truth is within ourselves.
          Paracelsus. Part i.
7060
              Are there not, dear Michal,
Two points in the adventure of the diver,—
One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge;
One, when a prince he rises with his pearl?
Festus, I plunge.
          Paracelsus. Part i.
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              God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
          Paracelsus. Part ii.
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    Error has no end.
          Paracelsus. Part iii.
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    The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
          Paracelsus. Part iv.
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              Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.
          Paracelsus. Part iv.
7065
              Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.
          Paracelsus. Part iv.
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              The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.
          Paracelsus. Part iv.
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    I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.
          Paracelsus. Part v.
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              Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
          Paracelsus. Part v.