Robert Browning Quotes - Page 4

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• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Fate, Trying

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.442, Wordsworth Editions

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• Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Men, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

  Robert Browning

  Struggle, Men, Half

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

  Robert Browning

  Love You, Sunshine, Blessing

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• Love is energy of life.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Energy Of Life, Self Improvement

  "Love's Way". Book by Orison Swett Marden, p. 175, 1918.

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• I count life just a stuff
  To try the soul's strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Strength, Soul

  'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

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• The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Way, Stoops

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.338

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• When is man strong until he feels alone?

  Robert Browning

  Birthday, Strong, Men

  "Colombe's birthday".

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• No thought which ever stirred
  A human breast should be untold.

  Robert Browning

  Should, Breasts, Humans

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.146, e-artnow sro

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• There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

  Robert Browning

  God, Education, Men

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1975

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• The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Heaven, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• Faultless to a fault.

  Robert Browning

  Perfection, Faults

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 9, l. 1175.

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• Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

  Robert Browning

  Splendour

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 59

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• I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

  Robert Browning

  God, Hands, Life Time

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• All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

  Robert Browning

  Infinite, Finite, Poetry Is

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• Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

  Robert Browning

  Beloved

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

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• Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Prayer, Memories

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

  Robert Browning

  Musician, Ears, May

  1864 Dramatis Personae,'Abt Vogler'.

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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. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never the time and the place
  And the loved one all together.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Together

  'Never the Time and the Place' (1883)

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• When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

  Robert Browning

  Hate, Love Is, I Hate

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

  Robert Browning

  Light, May, Way

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• At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Insane

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 479

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