Robert Browning Quotes - Page 11

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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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• 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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• All service is the same with God.

  Robert Browning

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

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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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• 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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• And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.

  Robert Browning

  Feelings, East, Gone

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions

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• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

  Robert Browning

  Book, Ignorance, Soul

  'Cleon' (1855) l. 57

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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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• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Body, Height

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

  Robert Browning

  Lost Ones, Years, Woe

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

  Robert Browning

  Book, People, Feelings

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.267, e-artnow sro

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• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

  Robert Browning

  Justice, Coats, Sticks

  "The Lost Leader" l. 1 (1845). Refers to William Wordsworth.

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