Robert Browning Quotes
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Robert Browning Quotes
- Name:
- Robert Browning
- Type:
- Poet
- Nationality:
- English
- Birth day:
- May 7
- Birth year:
- 1812
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A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning
- 2
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning
- 3
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. Robert Browning
- 4
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
- 5
Faultless to a fault. Robert Browning
- 6
God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning
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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
- 8
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
- 9
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
- 10
Love is energy of life. Robert Browning
- 11
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning
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My sun sets to rise again. Robert Browning
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! Robert Browning
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there. Robert Browning
- 15
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. Robert Browning
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Robert Browning
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Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. Robert Browning
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. Robert Browning
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
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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! Robert Browning
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning
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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
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! Robert Browning
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? Robert Browning
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. Robert Browning
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. Robert Browning