Robert Browning Quotes - Page 13

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• The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

  Robert Browning

  Christian, Atheism, Candid

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.391, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

  Robert Browning

  Devil, Way, Fiddle

  Robert Browning, Roma Alvah King (2008). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country”

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• Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

  Robert Browning

  Running, Morning, Autumn

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.207

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• A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Best Is Yet To Come, Half

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 1

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• Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

  Robert Browning

  Cousin, My Cousin

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• As if true pride
  Were not also humble!

  Robert Browning

  Humble, Pride, Ifs

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.246, Ohio University Press

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• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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• Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

  Robert Browning

  Time

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• The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

  Robert Browning

  Light, Beacons, Bosoms

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

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• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Angel, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.491, Wordsworth Editions

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• Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

  Robert Browning

  Genius

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

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• That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Earth, Reason

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Want, Leisure

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Keys, Ifs

  'House' (1876).

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

  Robert Browning

  People, Mass, Models

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.450, Pearson Education

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

  Robert Browning

  Time, Bird, Guides

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.129, e-artnow sro

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• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

  Robert Browning

  Failure, Succeed, Lows

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.538, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• How very hard it is to be a Christian!

  Robert Browning

  Christian, Christianity, Hard

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.100, Pearson Education

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• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

  Robert Browning

  Strength, Waste, Doom

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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