Robert Browning quotes - page 9

I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chatted all the way, But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er word said she But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me. (Robert Browning)
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain. View quote
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Where my heart lies let my brain lie also. View quote
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Love, we are in God's hand. How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. View quote
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Alls love, yet alls law. View quote
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Most progress is most failure. View quote
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It 's wiser being good than bad It 's safer being meek than fierce It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched. View quote
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. View quote
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy. View quote
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Who knows most, doubts most. View quote
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Such ever was loves way to rise, it stoops. (Robert Browning)
Life is an empty dream. View quote
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Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop. View quote
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O world, as God has made it! View quote
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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. View quote
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I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. View quote
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But facts are facts and flinch not. View quote
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The common problem, yours, mine, everyones Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. View quote
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Who knows but the world may end tonight? View quote
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In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe. View quote
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity. (Robert Browning)
Since there my past life lies, why alter it? View quote
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Dear dead women, with such hair, too - what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms I feel chilly and grow old. View quote
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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. View quote
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Day Faster and more fast. Oer nights brim, day boils at last. View quote
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