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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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• 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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• Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

  Robert Browning

  Horse, Boots, Saddles

  'Boot and Saddle' (1842)

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• All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

  Robert Browning

  Poetry, Difficult, Difficulty

  Robert Browning (1956). “Poems”, Boston

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• Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

  Robert Browning

  Time

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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?

  Robert Browning

  Time, Heaven, Done

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm.

  Robert Browning

  Rain, Heart, Lakes

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• How very hard it is to be a Christian!

  Robert Browning

  Christian, Christianity, Hard

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.100, Pearson Education

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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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• 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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• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

  Robert Browning

  Failure, Succeed, Lows

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.538, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Magic, Littles

  Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper Of Hamelin”

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• They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

  Robert Browning

  Change, Time, Perfect

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.326, Pearson Education

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• One and all
  We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto-
  Encourages the meanest who has racked
  Nature until he gains from her some fact,
  To state what truth is from his point of view,
  Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
  Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
  Come forward unabashed and haply lend
  His little life-experience to our much
  Of modern knowledge.

  Robert Browning

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

  Robert Browning

  Science, Men, Research

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• And let them pass, as they will too soon,
  With the bean-flowers' boon,
  And the blackbird's tune,
  And May, and June!

  Robert Browning

  Summer, Flower, June

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.26, Pearson Education

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• Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

  Robert Browning

  Genius

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Earth, Reason

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA

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• "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Keys, Ifs

  'House' (1876).

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• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

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