Robert Browning Quotes - Page 3

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• A minute's success pays the failure of years.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

  Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

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• If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

  Robert Browning

  Play, Two, World

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• God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

  Robert Browning

  Spring, Heaven, Larks

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

  Robert Browning

  Death, Mean, Dying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1902). “The Poetical Works”

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• Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Afterlife, Daylight, Sun

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

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• No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

  Robert Browning

  Motivational, Struggle, Fighting

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 693

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• Why stay on the earth except to grow.

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Earth, Grows

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• My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

  Robert Browning

  Made, Remakes, Absolutes

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Past, Succeed

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• Most progress is most failure.

  Robert Browning

  Failure, Progress

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

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• Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Heart, Brain

  1855 Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza 1.

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• Thought is the soul of act.

  Robert Browning

  Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.46

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• Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Lying

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• All's love, yet all's law.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

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• When pain ends, gain ends too.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Gains, Ends

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.341

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• how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  Robert Browning

  Sweet, Reflection, Mad

  'Confessions' (1864) st. 9

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• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

  Robert Browning

  God, Perfect, Poet

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648

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• God is the perfect poet.

  Robert Browning

  Godly, Perfect, Poetry

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648

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• I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

  Robert Browning

  God, Not Giving Up, Fighting

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 5, l. 363

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

  Robert Browning

  Bragging, Bluster, Brag

  Robert Browning (1996). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: With Variant Readings & Annotations”

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• I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Fire, Snow

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

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• He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

  Robert Browning

  Peace, War, Justice

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.71

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Time, Spring

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

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