Robert Browning Quotes & Robert Browning Sayings

To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. Robert Browning Adages "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." Robert Browning 'Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,/ Loving not, hating not, just choosing so. Robert Browning Sayings 'Tis the Last Judgement's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free. Robert Browning Popular Quotes Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving. Robert Browning A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning Quotations A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning Remarks Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning Remarks Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? 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 Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. Robert Browning And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Robert Browning Quotations And, Robert Browning, you writer of plays,/ Here's a subject made to your hand! Robert Browning Popular Quotes At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, / When you set your fancies free. Robert Browning Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life 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 But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main account. Robert Browning But facts are facts and flinch not 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 Quotes For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, - believe the aged friend - Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love 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 Quotes God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations. Robert Browning Adages God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning God's in his heaven: All's right with the world. Robert Browning Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Robert Browning Sayings 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 Quotations 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, Robert Browning Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning Grow old with me, the best is yet to be. Robert Browning He said, `What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! / Man has Forever.' Robert Browning He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet! Robert Browning I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. Robert Browning I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on. Robert Browning I have written three books on the soul, / Proving absurd all written hitherto, / And putting us to ignorance again. Robert Browning Quotes I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain. 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 I see the whole design, / I, who saw power, see now love perfect too. Robert Browning Sayings I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. 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 I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief. 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! Robert Browning Quotations If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. Robert Browning Sayings Ignorance is not innocence but sin Robert Browning Sayings Ignorance is not innocence but sin. 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 Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! Robert Browning It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart, And called himself the monarch of the world; Then, going in the tire-room afterward, Because the play was done, to shift himself, Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly, The moment he had shut the closet door, By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope At unawares, ask what his baubles mean, And whose part he presumed to play just now. Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! Robert Browning Love is energy of life. Robert Browning Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. Robert Browning My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. Robert Browning No sketches first, no studies, that’s long past: I do what many dream of all their lives, Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such On twice your fingers, and not leave this town, Who strive - you don’t know how The Others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat, - Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter) - so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged. Robert Browning One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it Robert Browning Remarks Others mistrust and say: "But time escapes - live now or never!" He said: "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes - Man has For ever Robert Browning Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I - and she Robert Browning Popular Quotes Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain Robert Browning Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And eve Robert Browning Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no? Robert Browning Remarks Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning Adages That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning Quotes The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning Adages The grand Perhaps! Robert Browning Quotes The great mind knows the power of gentleness. Robert Browning Adages The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, / The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, / Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; / Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by. 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 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. Robert Browning Popular Quotes 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 The year’s at the spring and day’s at the morn, Morning’s at seven’ The hillsides dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snails on the thorn: God’s in his heaven – All’s right with the world! Robert Browning Quotes Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each Sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! 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 Quotes There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. Robert Browning Quotes There's a real love of a lie, / Liars find ready-made for lies they make, / As hand for glove, or tongue for sugar-plum. Robert Browning This is our master, famous, calm, and dead,/ Borne on our shoulders. Robert Browning Quotations To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. Robert Browning Adages 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. Robert Browning Truth never hurts the teller. Robert Browning Quotations Unless God send his hail / Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow, / In some time, his good time, I shall arrive. Robert Browning We two stood there with never a third. Robert Browning Popular Quotes Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: / I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Robert Browning What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? 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 Remarks When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something 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 Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? Robert Browning You should not take a fellow eight years old / And make him swear to never kiss the girls. Robert Browning “Less is more” is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies van der Rohe. Robert Browning