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The Poetry Of Robert Browning

CHAPTER IV
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I had left love out; and love and knowledge, and power through knowledge, must go together.

And Aprile had also failed, for he had sought love and rejected knowledge.

Life can only move when both are hand in hand: love preceding Power, and with much power, always much more love: Love still too straitened in its present means, And earnest for new power to set love free.
I learned this, and supposed the whole was learned.
"But to learn it, and to fulfil it, are two different things.

I taught the simple truth, but men would not have it.

They sought the complex, the sensational, the knowledge which amazed them.


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