In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would … - Robert Browning

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In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Robert Browning

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power incapacity will disappointment

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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Alternative Names: Robert Barrett Browning • Browning

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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face.
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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
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Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears

Grime is grace
To whoso gropes amid the dung for gold.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus w… - Robert Browning

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