Famous Robert Browning Quotations

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"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."
by Robert Browning
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
by Robert Browning
"Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely."
by Robert Browning
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for"
by Robert Browning
"By this time he has tested his first plough, / And studied his last chapter of St John."
by Robert Browning
"Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!"
by Robert Browning
"Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, / The mist in my face."
by Robert Browning
"For note, when evening shuts, / A certain moment cuts / The deed off, calls the glory from the grey."
by Robert Browning
"God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod"
by Robert Browning
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
by Robert Browning
"Grow old along with me the best is yet to be."
by Robert Browning
"Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid"
by Robert Browning
"He's Judas to a tittle, that man is! / Just such a face!"
by Robert Browning
"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."
by Robert Browning
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."
by Robert Browning
"I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief."
by Robert Browning
"I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!"
by Robert Browning
"If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third; / One near one is too far."
by Robert Browning
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
by Robert Browning
"Just the one prize vouchsafed unworthy me, / Seven years a gardener of the untoward ground."
by Robert Browning
"Let us not always say / `Spite of this flesh today / I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!' / As the bird wings and sings,/ Let us cry `All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'"
by Robert Browning
"Motherhood All love begins and ends there."
by Robert Browning
"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made."
by Robert Browning
"My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made."
by Robert Browning
"No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers / The heroes of old, / Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears / Of pain, darkness and cold."
by Robert Browning
"O lover of my life, O soldier-saint."
by Robert Browning
"Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / Hand and foot in Belial's gripe."
by Robert Browning
"Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be"
by Robert Browning
"So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, / Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!"
by Robert Browning
"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
by Robert Browning
"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
by Robert Browning
"The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are."
by Robert Browning
"The moth's kiss, first! / Kiss me as if you made believe / You were not sure, this eve, / How my face, your flower, had pursed / Its petals up."
by Robert Browning
"To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life."
by Robert Browning
"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept"
by Robert Browning
"What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
by Robert Browning
"When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something"
by Robert Browning
"Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I."
by Robert Browning
"Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar."
by Robert Browning
"Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?"
by Robert Browning
"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice"
by Robert Browning
"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?"
by Robert Browning
"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph"
by Robert Browning
"What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me."
by Robert Browning
"I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two."
by Robert Browning
"God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, to give sign, we and they are His children, one family here."
by Robert Browning
"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."
by Robert Browning
"Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I."
by Robert Browning
"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."
by Robert Browning
"Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!"
by Robert Browning
"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."
by Robert Browning
"Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought."
by Robert Browning
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
by Robert Browning
"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"
by Robert Browning
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith,"
by Robert Browning
"My sun sets to rise again."
by Robert Browning
"And gain is gain, however small."
by Robert Browning
"Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!"
by Robert Browning
"When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon."
by Robert Brown
"This may be a blessing for some courses, ... The attrition of the facilities hopefully will match the attrition of the population. The golfers that played at City Park or Eastover will want to play golf. So they will have to go to other facilities."
by Robert Brown
"The economic impact is in the millions of dollars, ... And those are dollars you can't recoup. For every day a facility is closed, the golf pro can't make up those rounds. We won't know the full effect for two to three years. My sense is that some courses won't survive down the road."
by Robert Brown
"It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people who share how they've done it. It's an everlasting human story."
by Robert Brown
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
by Robert Browning
"The year"
by Robert Browning
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
by Robert Browning
"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."
by Robert Browning
"Truth never hurts the teller."
by Robert Browning
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
by Robert Browning
"And as she died so must we die ourselves, And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream. Life, how and what is it?"
by Robert Browning
"—E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,..."
by Robert Browning
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made:"
by Robert Browning
"He's Judas to a tittle, that man is!"
by Robert Browning
"Let us try. To-morrow, how you shall be glad for this!"
by Robert Browning
"No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old,..."
by Robert Browning
"Only I discern— Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
by Robert Browning
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call"
by Robert Browning
"The world and life's too big to pass for a dream,"
by Robert Browning
"the whole seems to fall into a shape As if I saw alike my work and self..."
by Robert Browning
"There's a new tribunal now Higher than God's—the educated man's!"
by Robert Browning
"There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails:"
by Robert Browning
"we two With life forever old yet new, Changed not in kind but in degree, The instant made eternity—"
by Robert Browning
"We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed..."
by Robert Browning
"Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told: It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws,"
by Robert Browning
"'You're wounded!' 'Nay,' his soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said:..."
by Robert Browning
"Your business is not to catch men with show, With homage to the perishable clay,..."
by Robert Browning


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