Top 340 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Browning - Page 2

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Truth never hurts the teller.

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

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!

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

Truth is within ourselves.

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

All's love, yet all's law.

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'

When is man strong until he feels alone?

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Earth is crammed with heavens.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

Love is the energy of life.

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

What joy is better than the news of friends?

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.