Robert Browning Quotes - Page 5

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• How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

  Robert Browning

  Freedom, Deep Thought, Fetters

  "My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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• Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

  Robert Browning

  Inspiring, Nature, Autumn

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.132, Wildside Press LLC

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• What so wild as words are?

  Robert Browning

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.274, Pearson Education

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• Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

  Robert Browning

  Love, Children, Men

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 3, l. 88

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• Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

  Robert Browning

  Joy, Thank God, Desire

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• Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Kissing, Universe

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.389, Wildside Press LLC

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Age, Dew

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.106, Ohio University Press

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• Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

  Robert Browning

  April And Spring, England, April

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 1 (1845)

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• Open my heart, and you will see
  Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'

  Robert Browning

  Heart, My Heart

  'De Gustibus' (1855) pt. 2, l. 39

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• The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

  Robert Browning

  Time, Men, Faults

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.445, Pearson Education

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• Truth is within ourselves.

  Robert Browning

  Truth, Truth Is

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.337

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• Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Angel, Past

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• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Angel, Bird

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1391

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• How good is life, the mere living!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Live Life, Mere

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• I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

  Robert Browning

  Want, Might, Gains

  Robert Browning (1993). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• What joy is better than the news of friends?

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, Joy, News

  "Poems".

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• For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Yield, Joy

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

  Robert Browning

  Kindness, Thieves, Lasts

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.145, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

  Robert Browning

  Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

  Robert Browning

  Love, Sleep, Storm

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations".

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• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Mouths

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

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• The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Mean, May

  Robert Browning (1910). “Browning: Biographical Notes, Appreciations, and Selections from His "Fifty Men and Women,"”

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• From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

  Robert Browning

  Islands, Sea, Lilies

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• But there are times when patience proves at fault.

  Robert Browning

  Patience, Faults, Prove

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.90

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• Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

  Robert Browning

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Love Is

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