Robert Browning Quotes - Page 4

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• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Earth

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 27

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• He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

  Robert Browning

  Peace, War, Justice

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.71

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• Never the time and the place
  And the loved one all together.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Together

  'Never the Time and the Place' (1883)

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• What a thing friendship is - World without end.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, World, Ends

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Fall

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

  Robert Browning

  Hate, Love Is, I Hate

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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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• Most progress is most failure.

  Robert Browning

  Failure, Progress

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Pretty Woman, Attractiveness

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

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• Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Prayer, Memories

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

  Robert Browning

  Splendour

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 59

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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.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Time, Spring

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, 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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• Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Way, Stoops

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.338

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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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• Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

  Robert Browning

  Love You, Sunshine, Blessing

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• Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Truth, Lying

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

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• At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Insane

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 479

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• Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

  Robert Browning

  Love, Giving, Talent

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