Robert Browning – 23 Quotes

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23 Quotes by Robert Browning

 

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

– Robert Browning


What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

– 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


Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

– Robert Browning


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.

– Robert Browning


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


Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

– 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


If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

– Robert Browning


Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

– Robert Browning


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

– Robert Browning


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


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


A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

– Robert Browning


Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

– Robert Browning


So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.

– Robert Browning


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

– Robert Browning


Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

– Robert Browning


Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

– Robert Browning


God is the perfect poet.

– Robert Browning


Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

– Robert Browning


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

– Robert Browning


The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

– Robert Browning


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