Top 100 Quotes About Robert Browning
#1. Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best. "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885
Craig Johnson
#2. We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
#3. Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. - Robert Browning
Oswald Chambers
#4. When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.
Harper Lee
#5. 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
#6. You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning
#14. I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.
Robert Browning
#15. "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
Robert Browning
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert Browning
#21. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
Robert Browning
#25. All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Robert Browning
#26. Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
Robert Browning
#28. The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.
Robert Browning
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Who was a queen and loved a poet once
Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!
Robert Browning
#36. 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
#39. The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
Robert Browning
#40. 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
#43. 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
#45. As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
Robert Browning
#46. 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
#48. Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
Robert Browning
#50. It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Robert Browning
#52. 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
#54. Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
Robert Browning
#55. 'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
Robert Browning
#57. Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Robert Browning
#58. In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
Robert Browning
#60. T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
Robert Browning
#61. 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
#64. 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
#65. And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
Robert Browning
#67. 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
#70. A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning
#71. Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
Robert Browning
#72. The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!
Robert Browning
#73. Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
Robert Browning
#75. At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
Robert Browning
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
Robert Browning
#82. 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
#87. Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
Robert Browning
#88. Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
Robert Browning
#89. 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
#90. Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
Robert Browning
#91. 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
#92. This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
Robert Browning
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
Robert Browning
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
Robert Browning
#100. The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
Robert Browning
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