Robert Browning Quotes - Page 6

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• God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
  Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
  One to show a woman when he loves her.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Two

  'One Word More' (1855) st. 17

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• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

  Robert Browning

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Teenage Love

  "A Toccata of Galuppi's" l. 42 (1855)

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• You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

  Robert Browning

  Faith, Doubt, Stronger

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Broken Heart, Perfect, Heaven

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

  Robert Browning

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

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• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• Wander at will,
  Day after day,--
  Wander away,
  Wandering still--
  Soul that canst soar!
  Body may slumber:
  Body shall cumber
  Soul-flight no more.

  Robert Browning

  Soul, May, Slumber

  Robert Browning (2003). “Robert Browning”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

  Robert Browning

  Happiness, Way, Best Way

  Robert Browning, “Caliban Upon Setebos Or, Natural Theology In The Island”

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• But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Past

  Robert Browning (1912). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

  Robert Browning

  June, Rose, Bounds

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.239, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

  Robert Browning

  Stills, Laughed

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.61, e-artnow sro

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• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Curiosity, Wickedness

  Robert Browning, Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler (2004). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.122, Oxford University Press

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• Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

  Robert Browning

  Mother, Men, Wife

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• Lofty designs must close in like effects.

  Robert Browning

  Design, Effects, Lofty

  'A Grammarian's Funeral' (1855) l. 145

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• Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

  Robert Browning

  Angel, Men, Brutes

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.205, Pearson Education

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• Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

  Robert Browning

  Winning, Heaven, May

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.16, Everyman's Library

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• I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Blow, Soul

  'Shop' (1876) st. 21

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• A man in armor is his armor's slave.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Armor, Slave

  Robert Browning (1899). “The Works of Robert Browning”

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• To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.

  Robert Browning

  Evening

  Robert Browning, Augustine Birrell (1915). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Light, Voice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Rose, Afar

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.334, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, And Love, Demand

  Robert Browning (1937). “The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning: New Ed.; with Additional Poems, First Pub. in 1914”

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• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Learning, Men

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.418, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

  Robert Browning

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.667, Wordsworth Editions

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• Graved inside of it, "Italy".

  Robert Browning

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

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