Top 100 Robert Browning Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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#3. There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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#4. 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.
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#6. But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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#7. 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.
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#8. On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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#9. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
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#10. 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.
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#11. God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.
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#12. 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!
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#13. Who was a queen and loved a poet once
Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!
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#15. 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.
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#17. Of power does Man possess no particle:
Of knowledge-just so much as show that still
It ends in ignorance on every side ...
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#18. 'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
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#19. Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
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#29. Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
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#30. I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
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#31. If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
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#32. Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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#37. What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
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#38. Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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#41. That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
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#42. 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?
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#43. This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
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#46. You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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#51. 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.
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#54. Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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#56. 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.
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#58. I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.
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#59. I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.
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#60. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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
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#66. Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
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#67. There is to truer truth attainable to man than comes of music.
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#68. The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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#69. Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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#70. That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
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#71. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
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#72. What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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#73. 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.
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#74. The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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#75. Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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#79. When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Ambition is not what man does ... but what man would do.
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#90. 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.
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#93. What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
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#98. 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
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#100. We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
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