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Top 10 Robert Browning Quotes

  1. My sun sets to rise again.
  2. Less is more.
  3. Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
  4. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
  5. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
  6. Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
  7. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
  8. Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
  9. I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
  10. Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
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Less is more. - Robert Browning

Less is more. — Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. - Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. — Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. - Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. - Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Short Quotes

  • Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
  • Our aspirations are our possibilities.
  • So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
  • Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
  • Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
  • Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
  • The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
  • And gain is gain, however small.
  • Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
  • Truth never hurts the teller.

Robert Browning Quotes About Love

Love is energy of life. — Robert Browning

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. — Robert Browning

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. — Robert Browning

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, — Robert Browning

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true. — Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up. — Robert Browning

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. — Robert Browning

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. — Robert Browning

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Quotes About Death

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! — Robert Browning

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

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

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

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. — Robert Browning

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. — Robert Browning

Death was past, life not come: so he waited. — Robert Browning

Death: the grand perhaps. — Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Quotes About Life

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! — Robert Browning

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. — Robert Browning

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet. — Robert Browning

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning

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

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music — Robert Browning

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! — Robert Browning

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. — Robert Browning

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

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Quotes About Fight

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. — Robert Browning

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. — Robert Browning

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. — Robert Browning

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Quotes About Heaven

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world. — Robert Browning

Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world — Robert Browning

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

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

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens. — Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. — Robert Browning

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

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?. — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Quotes About Earth

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched. — Robert Browning

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

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. — Robert Browning

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

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning

There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. — Robert Browning

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. — Robert Browning

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

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

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best? — Robert Browning

Robert Browning Famous Quotes And Sayings

Less is more. - Robert Browning

Less is more. — Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. - Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. — Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. - Robert Browning

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. — Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. - Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. - Robert Browning

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning

Good to forgive, Best to forget. — Robert Browning

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

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter. — Robert Browning

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. — Robert Browning

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. — Robert Browning

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

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — Robert Browning

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. — Robert Browning

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time. — Robert Browning

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. — Robert Browning

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. — Robert Browning

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day. — Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. — Robert Browning

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. — Robert Browning

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? — Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet. — Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years. — Robert Browning

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! — Robert Browning

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. — Robert Browning

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent. — Robert Browning

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. — Robert Browning

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. — Robert Browning

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. — Robert Browning

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. — Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations. — Robert Browning

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more. — Robert Browning

So free we seem, so fettered we are! — Robert Browning

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. — Robert Browning

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. — Robert Browning

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. — Robert Browning

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. — Robert Browning

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. — Robert Browning

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet — Robert Browning

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

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning

Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. — Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? — Robert Browning

For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest! — Robert Browning

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

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? — Robert Browning

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure. — Robert Browning

Who knows but the world may end tonight — Robert Browning

Faultless to a fault. — Robert Browning

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! — Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England now that April's there. — Robert Browning

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do! — Robert Browning

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. — Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning

God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun. — Robert Browning

Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar. — Robert Browning

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy? — Robert Browning

For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. — Robert Browning

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see. — Robert Browning

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. — Robert Browning

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. — Robert Browning

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. — Robert Browning

Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love. — Robert Browning

Life Lessons by Robert Browning

  1. Robert Browning taught us to be resilient in the face of adversity and to never give up on our dreams. He believed in the power of love and the importance of being true to oneself.
  2. He also encouraged us to be brave and take risks, to explore the unknown and to never be afraid of failure.
  3. Finally, he taught us to embrace life with passion and to find joy in the small moments. He believed that life was too short to be anything but happy.
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