Robert Browning quotes - page 2

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)
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? View quote
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. View quote
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. View quote
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. View quote
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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! View quote
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Grow old with me the best is yet to come. View quote
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Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live. View quote
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'With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart' once more Did Shakespeare If so, the less Shakespeare he. View quote
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How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet. View quote
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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)
Sing, riding 's a joy For me I ride. View quote
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He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace. View quote
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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. View quote
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
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This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever. View quote
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I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. View quote
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My sun sets to rise again. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Other heights in other lives, God willing. (Robert Browning)
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. View quote
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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. View quote
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What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me. View quote
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I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, I ask not but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the bird. In his good time. View quote
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