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"53 Robert Browning Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 May 1812. Died: 12 December 1889 | Poet | Playwright |

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Failure Minute Pays Success
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God is the perfect poet.

God Perfect Poet
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Had I Wonder Kissing Left
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb

Away Earth Love Our Take
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Feels Hears His Music
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for

Ah Exceed Grasp Heaven
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake

Back Baffled Better Break
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Love is energy of life.

Energy Life Love Love Is
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Employ Fit Forever Good
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Aspired Comforts Me
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Ambitious Anxiety Birds Cage
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Amused Before Learns Old
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds

Alone Deeds Fail Men
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Faultless to a fault.

Fault
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Begins Ends Love Motherhood
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold

Age Cram Day He
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ambition Does Man Would
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Appeal Autumn Best Decay
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Count Just Life Soul
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Loved LovedOne Never Place
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age Crystal Deemed Dew
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Eight Fellow Girl Him
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet

Arms Burn Cheeks Clutch
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

About Beauty Best Else
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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!

Careless Could Each Fine
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Bad Being Black Business
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there

April England Now Oh
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art Glory Good Least
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Changes Earth God Soul
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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Begins Fight Himself Man
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do

Does Him Man Tis
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Age Death Dream Face
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Character Faith Fear Hope
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin

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

God Justice Never Prove
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Casts Height Measure Mind
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Discern Finite Hearts Infinite
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Before Bent Carve Ever
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Away How How Much Less Little
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Am Asleep Fall I Am
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Every Late Rome Round
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves

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

Art Day Earth Else
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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.

Aim Better Failed God
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Aim Fate Great Leave
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

End Even Fight Forgotten
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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.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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Robert Browning Quotes & Sayings