Quote#Work
All instincts immature
Quote byRobert Browning · 1812–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 142..
English (original)
All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
— Robert Browning
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