Robert Browning Quotes - Page 12

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• Smiling the boy fell dead.

  Robert Browning

  Boys

  'Incident of the French Camp' (1842) st. 5

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• All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
  The buttercups, the little children's dower.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Gay, Littles

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.96, Everyman's Library

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• And let them pass, as they will too soon,
  With the bean-flowers' boon,
  And the blackbird's tune,
  And May, and June!

  Robert Browning

  Summer, Flower, June

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.26, Pearson Education

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• The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm.

  Robert Browning

  Rain, Heart, Lakes

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

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  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

  Robert Browning

  Science, Men, Research

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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• One and all
  We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto-
  Encourages the meanest who has racked
  Nature until he gains from her some fact,
  To state what truth is from his point of view,
  Mere pin-point though it be: since many such
  Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend
  Come forward unabashed and haply lend
  His little life-experience to our much
  Of modern knowledge.

  Robert Browning

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

  Robert Browning

  Poetry, Difficult, Difficulty

  Robert Browning (1956). “Poems”, Boston

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Magic, Littles

  Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper Of Hamelin”

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• The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

  Robert Browning

  Golf, Games, Clubs

  Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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• Once more on my adventure brave and new.

  Robert Browning

  Travel, Adventure, Brave

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

  Robert Browning

  Time, Heaven, Done

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

  Robert Browning

  Horse, Boots, Saddles

  'Boot and Saddle' (1842)

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Body, Height

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

  Robert Browning

  Inspiration, Watches, Milton

  'The Lost Leader' (1845)

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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• 'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

  Robert Browning

  Atheism, Absurd, Positive Atheism

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 123

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• I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

  Robert Browning

  Book, People, Feelings

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.267, e-artnow sro

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• All service is the same with God.

  Robert Browning

  "Pippa Passes". Verse by Robert Browning, Part IV, 1841.

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• When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

  Robert Browning

  Drinking, Liquor

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.171

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• But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

  Robert Browning

  Liberty, Littles

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.442, Wildside Press LLC

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• The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

  Robert Browning

  Pride, Men, Firsts

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.50, Wordsworth Editions

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• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

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

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