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Robert Browning Quotes

It is the glory and good of art, that art remains the one way possible of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded over the land, breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength Picture Quote #1

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven what were all Earth else, with a feel of heaven Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Picture Quote #1

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, rests never on the track until it reach delinquency Picture Quote #1

Why comes temptation but for man to meet and master and make crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? Picture Quote #1

What's the Earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - compared with love, found, gained, and kept? Picture Quote #1

God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, to give sign, we and they are His children, one family here Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up Picture Quote #1

We loved, sir - used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was - But then, how it was sweet! Picture Quote #1

I find Earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; do I stand and stare? all's blue Picture Quote #1

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride Picture Quote #1

The peerless cup afloat of the lake - lily is an urn some nymph swims bearing high above her head Picture Quote #1

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All service ranks the same with God, with God, whose puppets, best and worst, are we: there is no last nor first Picture Quote #1

The heavens and Earth stay as they were; my heart beats as it beat: The truth remains the truth Picture Quote #1

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be Picture Quote #1

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. the honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist Picture Quote #1

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul sides, - one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her! Picture Quote #1

Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song - and in my brain I sing it; Drew one angel borne, see, on my bosom! Picture Quote #1

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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 (Robert Browning Quotes) 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 (Robert Browning Quotes) The sea heaves up, hangs loaded over the land, breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength (Robert Browning Quotes) Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven what were all Earth else, with a feel of heaven (Robert Browning Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! (Robert Browning Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Robert Browning Quotes) God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, rests never on the track until it reach delinquency (Robert Browning Quotes) Why comes temptation but for man to meet and master and make crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? (Robert Browning Quotes) What's the Earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - compared with love, found, gained, and kept? (Robert Browning Quotes) God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, to give sign, we and they are His children, one family here (Robert Browning Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) We loved, sir - used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was - But then, how it was sweet! (Robert Browning Quotes) I find Earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; do I stand and stare? all's blue (Robert Browning Quotes) The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride (Robert Browning Quotes) The peerless cup afloat of the lake - lily is an urn some nymph swims bearing high above her head (Robert Browning Quotes) All service ranks the same with God, with God, whose puppets, best and worst, are we: there is no last nor first (Robert Browning Quotes) The heavens and Earth stay as they were; my heart beats as it beat: The truth remains the truth (Robert Browning Quotes) Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be (Robert Browning Quotes) Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. the honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist (Robert Browning Quotes) God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures boasts two soul sides, - one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he loves her! (Robert Browning Quotes) Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song - and in my brain I sing it; Drew one angel borne, see, on my bosom! (Robert Browning Quotes)

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