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I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered
that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me. -- Robert Browning
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. -- 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! -- Robert Browning
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl. -- Robert Browning
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?. -- Robert Browning
Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,
he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each. -- Robert Browning
Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there. -- Robert Browning
At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now. -- Robert Browning
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best. -- Robert Browning
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. -- Robert Browning
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow! -- Robert Browning
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. -- Robert Browning
Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. -- Robert Browning
My whole life long I learn'd to love,
This hour my utmost art I prove.
And speak my passion - heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well! -- Robert Browning
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black. -- Robert Browning
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. -- Robert Browning
What a thing friendship is - World without end. -- Robert Browning
God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. -- Robert Browning
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages. -- Robert Browning
My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby. -- Robert Browning
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to. -- Robert Browning
Truth never hurts the teller. -- Robert Browning
What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half-asleep or song half-awake?
I must learn Spanish, one of these days,
Only for that slow sweet name's sake. -- Robert Browning
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. -- Robert Browning
Thought is the soul of act. -- Robert Browning
Hold On. Hope Hard. -- Robert Browning
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! -- Robert Browning
Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell. -- Robert Browning
Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride. -- Robert Browning
Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you. -- Robert Browning
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you. -- Robert Browning
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her. -- Robert Browning
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. -- Robert Browning
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. -- Robert Browning
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. -- Robert Browning
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star! -- Robert Browning
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. -- Robert Browning
Who was a queen and loved a poet once
Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that! -- Robert Browning
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. -- Robert Browning
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. -- Robert Browning
How good is life, the mere living! -- Robert Browning
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies. -- Robert Browning
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. -- Robert Browning
Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose. -- Robert Browning
I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either. -- Robert Browning
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. -- Robert Browning
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain -- Robert Browning
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth -- Robert Browning
Our aspirations are our responsibilities. -- Robert Browning
Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge. -- Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England now that April's there. -- Robert Browning
So, fall asleep love, loved by me ... for I know love, I am loved by thee. -- Robert Browning
The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head. -- Robert Browning
Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up ... -- Robert Browning
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. -- Robert Browning
For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. -- Robert Browning
Faultless to a fault. -- Robert Browning
And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! -- Robert Browning
grow old with me. the best is yet to be.
the last of life for which the first was made. -- Robert Browning
This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever. -- Robert Browning
And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning
Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus in a Painting of "The Judgement of Paris"
He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed. -- Robert Browning
Look not down but up! -- 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. -- Robert Browning
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last. -- Robert Browning
But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty. -- Robert Browning
Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet. -- Robert Browning
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise. -- Robert Browning
Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. -- Robert Browning
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. -- Robert Browning
How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet -- Robert Browning
In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe. -- Robert Browning
I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best. -- Robert Browning
But there are times when patience proves at fault. -- Robert Browning
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. -- Robert Browning
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! -- Robert Browning
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart. -- Robert Browning
What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity -- Robert Browning
My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality. -- Robert Browning
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost. -- Robert Browning
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy? -- Robert Browning
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low:
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. -- Robert Browning
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. -- Robert Browning
Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. -- Robert Browning
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work? -- Robert Browning
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! -- Robert Browning
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love. -- Robert Browning
Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. -- Robert Browning
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character -- Robert Browning
It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least. -- Robert Browning
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. -- Robert Browning
I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
By no change of its large calm front of snow. -- Robert Browning
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. -- Robert Browning
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. -- Robert Browning
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire. -- Robert Browning
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! -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream -- Robert Browning
They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store. -- Robert Browning
The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. -- Robert Browning
Of power does Man possess no particle:
Of knowledge-just so much as show that still
It ends in ignorance on every side ... -- Robert Browning
No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold. -- Robert Browning
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. -- Robert Browning
Who knows most, doubts most. -- Robert Browning
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, -so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present, condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense. -- Robert Browning
Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed. -- Robert Browning
Truth never hurt the teller. -- Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -- Robert Browning
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also -- Robert Browning
The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom. -- Robert Browning
What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? -- Robert Browning
The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way! -- Robert Browning
He guides me and the bird. In His good time! -- Robert Browning
Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled! -- Robert Browning
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! -- Robert Browning
Life is an empty dream. -- Robert Browning
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! -- Robert Browning
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon! -- Robert Browning
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe. -- Robert Browning
I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize. -- Robert Browning
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. -- Robert Browning
In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat - somewhat, too, the power
And thus we half-men struggle. -- Robert Browning
Our business was done at the river's brink; -- Robert Browning
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar. -- Robert Browning
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? -- Robert Browning
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. -- Robert Browning
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters! -- Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? -- Robert Browning
What so wild as words are? -- Robert Browning
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; -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. -- Robert Browning
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. -- Robert Browning
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ? -- Robert Browning
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's! -- Robert Browning
Graved inside of it, "Italy". -- Robert Browning
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness. -- Robert Browning
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled. -- Robert Browning
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love. -- Robert Browning
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart. -- Robert Browning
Never brag, never bluster, never blush. -- Robert Browning
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -- Robert Browning
Smiling the boy fell dead. -- Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents -- Robert Browning
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose. -- Robert Browning
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most. -- Robert Browning
What joy is better than news of friends? -- Robert Browning
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! -- Robert Browning
Other heights in other lives, God willing. -- Robert Browning
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he! -- Robert Browning
God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that. -- Robert Browning
Since there my past life lies, why alter it? -- Robert Browning
O lyric love! half angel half bird -- Robert Browning
Women hate a debt as men a gift. -- Robert Browning
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. -- Robert Browning
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. -- Robert Browning
On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. -- Robert Browning
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see. -- Robert Browning
The past is gained, secure, and on record. -- Robert Browning
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed! -- Robert Browning
A man's reach should exceed his grasp -- Robert Browning
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. -- Robert Browning
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. -- Robert Browning
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. -- Robert Browning
The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy. -- Robert Browning
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. -- Robert Browning
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were. -- Robert Browning
Who knows but the world may end tonight -- Robert Browning
One taste of the old time sets all to rights. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
Truth is truth howe'er it strike. -- Robert Browning
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. -- Robert Browning
In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. -- Robert Browning
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep. -- Robert Browning
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! -- Robert Browning
So, I soberly laid my last plan
To extinguish the man.
Round his creep-hole, with never a break
Ran my fires for his sake;
Over-head, did my thunder combine
With my under-ground mine:
Till I looked from my labour content
To enjoy the event. -- Robert Browning
All service is the same with God. -- Robert Browning
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. -- Robert Browning
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. -- Robert Browning
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. -- Robert Browning
Earth is crammed with heavens. -- Robert Browning
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her -- Robert Browning
I was ever a fighter, so
one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past. -- Robert Browning
Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. -- Robert Browning
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. -- Robert Browning
Good to forgive, Best to forget. -- Robert Browning
How very hard it is to be a Christian! -- Robert Browning
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens. -- Robert Browning
Truth is within ourselves. -- Robert Browning
Talent should minister to genius. -- Robert Browning
Once more on my adventure brave and new. -- Robert Browning
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true. -- Robert Browning
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too
what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? -- Robert Browning
Death: the grand perhaps. -- Robert Browning
What youth deemed crystal,age finds out was dew -- Robert Browning
Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she ... -- Robert Browning
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. -- Robert Browning
All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul! -- Robert Browning
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. -- Robert Browning
Love is the energy of life. -- Robert Browning
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. -- Robert Browning
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom. -- Robert Browning
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd. -- Robert Browning
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs. -- Robert Browning
I do what many dream of, all their lives -- Robert Browning
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world -- Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable. -- Robert Browning
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die? -- Robert Browning
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. -- Robert Browning
A man in armour is his armour's slave. -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
Without love, our earth is a tomb -- Robert Browning
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing. -- Robert Browning
Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like. -- Robert Browning
This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. -- Robert Browning
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did. -- Robert Browning
Truth is within ourselves ... there is an inmost center in us all..where truth abides in fulness
and to know,rather consists in open out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape -- Robert Browning
Wander at will,
Day after day,
Wander away,
Wandering still
Soul that canst soar!
Body may slumber:
Body shall cumber
Soul-flight no more. -- Robert Browning
Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing ... I am in full sunshine now. -- Robert Browning
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be. -- Robert Browning
A minute's success pays the failure of years. -- Robert Browning
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. -- Robert Browning
Make us happy and you make us good. -- Robert Browning
I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue. -- Robert Browning
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music -- Robert Browning
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. -- Robert Browning
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. -- Robert Browning
The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go. -- Robert Browning
O world, as God has made it! All is beauty. -- Robert Browning
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. -- Robert Browning
Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell! -- Robert Browning
Ambition is not what man does ... but what man would do. -- Robert Browning
Why stay on the earth except to grow. -- Robert Browning
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! -- Robert Browning
A minute of success pays for years of failure. -- Robert Browning
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire. -- Robert Browning
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. -- Robert Browning
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together. -- Robert Browning
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes. -- Robert Browning
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. -- Robert Browning
But facts are facts and flinch not. -- Robert Browning
So free we seem, so fettered we are! -- Robert Browning
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy". -- Robert Browning
Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once. -- Robert Browning
'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls. -- Robert Browning
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. -- Robert Browning
God is the perfect poet. -- Robert Browning
Each life unfulfilled, you see;
It hangs still, patchy and scrappy:
We have not sighed deep, laughed free,
Starved, feasted, despaired, - been happy. -- Robert Browning
Love is energy of life. -- Robert Browning
---all's love, yet all's law. -- Robert Browning
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? -- Robert Browning
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world. -- Robert Browning
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. -- Robert Browning
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. -- Robert Browning
A man in armor is his armor's slave. -- Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again. -- Robert Browning
When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday -- Robert Browning
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no! -- Robert Browning
Most progress is most failure. -- Robert Browning
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. -- Robert Browning
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know. -- Robert Browning
Shun death, is my advice. -- Robert Browning
The great mind knows the power of gentleness. -- 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. -- Robert Browning
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity -- Robert Browning
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead. -- Robert Browning
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower. -- Robert Browning
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace. -- Robert Browning
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done. -- Robert Browning
Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once! -- Robert Browning
The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew. -- Robert Browning
Death was past, life not come: so he waited. -- Robert Browning
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! -- Robert Browning
Lofty designs must close in like effects. -- Robert Browning
What if all's appearance? Is not outside seeming real as substance inside? Both are facts, so leave me dreaming. -- Robert Browning
When pain ends, gain ends too. -- Robert Browning
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight! -- Robert Browning
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. -- Robert Browning
A lion may die of an ass's kick. -- Robert Browning
We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them. -- Robert Browning
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. -- Robert Browning
It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. -- Robert Browning
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. -- Robert Browning
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. -- Robert Browning
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. -- Robert Browning
No work begun shall ever pause for death. -- Robert Browning
All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite. -- Robert Browning
Earth being so good, would heaven seem best? -- Robert Browning
The Best Is Yet To Be -- Robert Browning
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. -- Robert Browning
Praise is deeper than the lips -- Robert Browning
Why stay we on earth except to grow? -- Robert Browning
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! -- Robert Browning
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. -- Robert Browning
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything. -- Robert Browning
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. -- Robert Browning
Imperfection means perfection hid. -- Robert Browning
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. -- Robert Browning
As if true pride
Were not also humble! -- Robert Browning
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. -- Robert Browning
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? -- Robert Browning
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. -- Robert Browning
There is to truer truth attainable to man than comes of music. -- Robert Browning
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! -- Robert Browning
Our aspirations are our possibilities. -- Robert Browning