Robert Browning

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, read more

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.