Robert Browning Quotes - Page 13

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• Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

  Robert Browning

  Inspiration, Watches, Milton

  'The Lost Leader' (1845)

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

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  Poetry, Difficult, Difficulty

  Robert Browning (1956). “Poems”, Boston

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• That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

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  Men, Missing, Mind

  'A Grammarian's Funeral' (1855) l. 113

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• How very hard it is to be a Christian!

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  Christian, Christianity, Hard

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

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• The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

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  Light, Beacons, Bosoms

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.90, 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.

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  Evil, Mad, Being Me

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

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• When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

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  Men, Want, Leisure

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
  Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
  With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
  And called himself the monarch of the world;
  Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
  Because the play was done, to shift himself,
  Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
  The moment he had shut the closet door,
  By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
  At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
  And whose part he presumed to play just now.
  Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

  Robert Browning

  Death, Being Yourself, Mean

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

  Robert Browning

  Comfort, Might, Succeed

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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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?

  Robert Browning

  Hair, Gold, Used

  'A Toccata of Galuppi's' (1855) st. 15

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• Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

  Robert Browning

  Blue, Hatred, Heaven

  Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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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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• 'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

  Robert Browning

  Atheism, Absurd, Positive Atheism

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 123

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• Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

  Robert Browning

  World, Littles, Poverty

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 39

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• Smiling the boy fell dead.

  Robert Browning

  Boys

  'Incident of the French Camp' (1842) st. 5

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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.

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  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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

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  Science, Men, Research

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

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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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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

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  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
  From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
  There is an inmost centre in us all,
  Where truth abides in fulness; and around,
  Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
  This perfect, clear perception-which is truth.
  A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
  Binds it, and makes all error: and to know
  Rather consists in opening out a way
  Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
  Than in effecting entry for a light
  Supposed to be without.

  Robert Browning

  Wall, Believe, Errors

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.35

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• That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.

  Robert Browning

  Small Hands, Hands, Spirit

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 23

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• Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

  Robert Browning

  Running, Morning, Autumn

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.207

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