Robert Browning Quotes - Page 7

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• So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

  Robert Browning

  Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner

  'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' (1842) st. 7

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• O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

  Robert Browning

  Country, Heart, Land

  Robert Browning, Robert Browning (Dichter, Grossbritannien) (1995). “Men and women”

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• I do what many dream of, all their lives

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Action

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Praise is deeper than the lips

  Robert Browning

  Lips, Praise, Deeper

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.538, Wordsworth Editions

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• What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Practice, Perfection

  'Old Pictures in Florence' (1855) st. 17

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Heart, Endure

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Ignorance, Knowledge

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 482

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

  Robert Browning

  Men, Slave, Armour

  Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.695, e-artnow sro

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• It was roses, roses, all the way,
  With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Mad, Rose

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.216, Pearson Education

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• Make us happy and you make us good.

  Robert Browning

  Happiness, Happy

  Robert Browning (1998). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring and the Book”, p.234, Oxford University Press

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• We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

  Robert Browning

  Ocean, Yield, Average

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Stood Up

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

  Robert Browning

  Tree, Three, Generations

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• Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

  Robert Browning

  Mean, Men, Youth

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 1, l. 1056

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• What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Sweet, Names

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Mean, May

  Robert Browning (1910). “Browning: Biographical Notes, Appreciations, and Selections from His "Fifty Men and Women,"”

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• Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

  Robert Browning

  Dies, Conditions

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

  Robert Browning

  Believe, Lasts, Firsts

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.518, Pearson Education

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• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Song, Thinking

  "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" l. 14 (1845)

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• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Heaven, Bakers

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• Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, World, Made

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.18, Pearson Education

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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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• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Heaven, Sabbath

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

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