“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
― Robert Browning
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
― Robert Browning
“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
― Robert Browning
“Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.”
― Robert Browning
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
― Robert Browning
“Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.”
― Robert Browning
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
― Robert Browning
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
― Robert Browning
“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
― Robert Browning
“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
“All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.”
― Robert Browning
“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”
― Robert Browning
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
― Robert Browning
“Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”
― Robert Browning
“Faultless to a fault.”
― 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
“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.”
― Robert Browning
“Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”
― 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
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”
― 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
“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
“So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
― Robert Browning
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
― 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
“My sun sets to rise again.”
― Robert Browning
“Love is energy of life.”
― Robert Browning
“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
― Robert Browning
“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”
― 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
“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
“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
“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
“Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.”
― Robert Browning
“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”
― Robert Browning
“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
― Robert Browning
“I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.”
― Robert Browning
“God is the perfect poet.”
― Robert Browning
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
― Robert Browning
“What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”
― Robert Browning
“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
― Robert Browning
“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
― Robert Browning
“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
― 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
“No, when the fight begins within himself, A man’s worth something.”
― Robert Browning
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
― Robert Browning
“Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!”
― Robert Browning
“Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.”
― Robert Browning
“God’s justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.”
― Robert Browning
“But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?”
― Robert Browning
“Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.”
― Robert Browning
“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
“Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
― Robert Browning
“On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”
― Robert Browning
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