Quotes by Browning, Robert

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"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."

Browning, Robert on age and aging   

"Grow old with me the best is yet to come."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"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."

Browning, Robert on defeat
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"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."

Browning, Robert on desire   

"There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s!"

Browning, Robert on education   

"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"

Browning, Robert on effort   

"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."

Browning, Robert on emotions
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"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist."

Browning, Robert on fiction   

"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"And gain is gain, however small."

Browning, Robert on gain   

"What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me."

Browning, Robert on ambition   

"'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"

Browning, Robert on ambition   

"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."

Browning, Robert on ambition   

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

Browning, Robert on ambition   

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?"

Browning, Robert on goals   

"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."

Browning, Robert on hope
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"Ignorance is not innocence, but sin."

Browning, Robert on ignorance   

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"Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought."

Browning, Robert on inspiration   

"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."

Browning, Robert on joy   

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

Browning, Robert on life   

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Browning, Robert on love
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"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"

Browning, Robert on love   

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

Browning, Robert on missionaries   

"My sun sets to rise again."

Browning, Robert on optimism
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Browning, Robert on autumn   

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"Less is more."

Browning, Robert on possessions   

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

Browning, Robert on possibilities   

"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

Browning, Robert on self-control
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"It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."

Browning, Robert on sincerity
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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

Browning, Robert on song and singing   

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Browning, Robert on success
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"Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!"

Browning, Robert on catholicism   

"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."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"Truth never hurts the teller."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are."

Browning, Robert on uncertainty   

"The year's at the spring; And 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!"

Browning, Robert on world   

"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

Browning, Robert on writers and writing
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

Browning, Robert on youth
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"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,"

Browning, Robert on courage