Robert Browning quotes

 quotes - A minute's success pays the failure of years.

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

— Robert Browning

 quotes - Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”

— Robert Browning

 quotes - My sun sets to rise again.

“My sun sets to rise again.”

— Robert Browning

 quotes - Love is energy of life.

“Love is energy of life.”

— Robert Browning

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?”

— 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

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

“God is the perfect poet.”

— Robert Browning

“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”

— Robert Browning

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

— Robert Browning

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”

— Robert Browning

“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

— Robert Browning

“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”

— Robert Browning

“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

“On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”

— 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

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

— Robert Browning

“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

“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

“Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!”

— Robert Browning

“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.”

— 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

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

— Robert Browning

“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”

— Robert Browning

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”

— Robert Browning