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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Robert Browning
Lying, Heart, Brain
1855 Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza 1.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Robert Browning
Art, Truth, Lying
'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Robert Browning
Lying, Stood Up
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Robert Browning
Life, Lying, Past
Robert Browning (1912). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Robert Browning
Lying, Past, Deceit
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Robert Browning
Lying, Teaching, Errors
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

Robert Browning
Life, Lying, Men
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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