Robert Browning Quotes - Page 11

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Birthday, Dream, Age

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

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  Pain, Passion, Heart

  'Two in the Campagna' (1855) st. 12

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Past, Past Life

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.162, Wildside Press LLC

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• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

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  Life, Lying, Men

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.

  Robert Browning

  Night, Lasts, Faster

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.326, e-artnow sro

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

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  World, Littles, Poverty

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 39

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• One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Doe, May

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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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• 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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• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

  Robert Browning

  Love, Justice, Might

  'The Last Ride Together' (1855) st. 4

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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. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.

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  Beauty, Spring, Autumn

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

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• Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

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  Children, Blow, Blood

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education

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• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
  Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
  Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

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  Pain, Women, Pretty Woman

  Robert Browning (1863). “Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday”, p.316

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• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

  Robert Browning

  Book, Ignorance, Soul

  'Cleon' (1855) l. 57

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

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  Blue, Hatred, Heaven

  Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

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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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• Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

  Robert Browning

  Lost Ones, Years, Woe

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.49, Wildside Press LLC

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• God smiles as He has always smiled;
  Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
  Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
  The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
  Ordained a life for me, arrayed
  Its circumstances, every one
  To the minutest; ay, God said
  This head this hand should rest upon
  Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

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  Stars, Children, Moon

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

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  Change, Time, Perfect

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.326, Pearson Education

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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!

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  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.

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  Comfort, Might, Succeed

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

  Robert Browning

  God, Track, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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