Robert Browning Quotes - Page 12

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Birthday, Dream, Age

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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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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• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  'Two in the Campagna' (1855) st. 12

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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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• 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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• 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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• The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

  Robert Browning

  Golf, Games, Clubs

  Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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• Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

  Robert Browning

  Cousin, My Cousin

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Doe, May

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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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• 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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• Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

  Robert Browning

  Horse, Boots, Saddles

  'Boot and Saddle' (1842)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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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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• 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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• 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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• The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

  Robert Browning

  Pride, Men, Firsts

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.50, Wordsworth Editions

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