Robert Browning Quotes - Page 11

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• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

  Robert Browning

  God, Track, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

  Robert Browning

  Time

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• A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Best Is Yet To Come, Half

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 1

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• Once more on my adventure brave and new.

  Robert Browning

  Travel, Adventure, Brave

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• All service is the same with God.

  Robert Browning

  "Pippa Passes". Verse by Robert Browning, Part IV, 1841.

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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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.

  Robert Browning

  People, Mass, Models

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.450, Pearson Education

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• He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

  Robert Browning

  Time, Bird, Guides

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.129, e-artnow sro

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

  Robert Browning

  Strength, Waste, Doom

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Angel, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.491, Wordsworth Editions

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• That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

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• Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Past, Past Life

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.162, Wildside Press LLC

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• Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

  Robert Browning

  Night, Lasts, Faster

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.326, e-artnow sro

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• Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

  Robert Browning

  Love, Justice, Might

  'The Last Ride Together' (1855) st. 4

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• When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

  Robert Browning

  Drinking, Liquor

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.171

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• But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

  Robert Browning

  Liberty, Littles

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.442, Wildside Press LLC

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• The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

  Robert Browning

  Christian, Atheism, Candid

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.391, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
  The buttercups, the little children's dower.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Gay, Littles

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.96, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• God smiles as He has always smiled;
  Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
  Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
  The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
  Ordained a life for me, arrayed
  Its circumstances, every one
  To the minutest; ay, God said
  This head this hand should rest upon
  Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Children, Moon

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Blow, Blood

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education

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• The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

  Robert Browning

  Devil, Way, Fiddle

  Robert Browning, Roma Alvah King (2008). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country”

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• As if true pride
  Were not also humble!

  Robert Browning

  Humble, Pride, Ifs

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.246, Ohio University Press

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