"Impuissance" Quotes from Famous Books
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— A Half-Century of Conflict, Volume II • Francis Parkman
... will, stream the worlds, life and nature, thy dread Sabaoth: I will?—the mere atoms despise me! Why am I not loath To look that, even that in the face too? Why is it I dare Think but lightly of such impuissance? What stops my 295 despair? This;—'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! See the King—I would help him but cannot, the wishes fall through. Could I wrestle to raise him from ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning |
