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Thought is the soul of act.

Thought is the soul of act.

Robert Browning
Soul
Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.46

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

Robert Browning
Life, Strength, Soul
'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

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Soul, Earth
'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 27

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.

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Soul, May, Slumber
Robert Browning (2003). “Robert Browning”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Robert Browning
Men, Wings, Soul
Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

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Song, Blow, Soul
'Shop' (1876) st. 21

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

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Soul, Flesh, Helping
Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

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Giving, Perfect, Soul
Robert Browning, “Now!”

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

Robert Browning
God, Stars, Soul
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Robert Browning
Play, Soul, Awkward
'A Light Woman' (1855) st. 12

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Robert Browning
Book, Ignorance, Soul
'Cleon' (1855) l. 57

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

Robert Browning
Soul, Body, Height
Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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