Top 340 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Browning
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Faultless to a fault.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Love is energy of life.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
God is the perfect poet.
My sun sets to rise again.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
The best things in life can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
If you are asking if I'd hurt you, the answer is never.
If you are asking if i love u,the answer is forever.
If you are asking if i want u,the answer is i do.
If you are asking what i value most, the answer is YOU
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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