Quotes from work
Paracelsus

Robert Browning

“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.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Error has no end.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 3.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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Paracelsus (1835)

“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Truth is within ourselves.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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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.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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“Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

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