Robert Browning Quotes
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Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.
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I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.
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And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
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In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
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Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?
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Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
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The world and life's too big to pass for a dream
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!
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My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.
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The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
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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.
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In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.
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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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Life is an empty dream.
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All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.
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Faultless to a fault.
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Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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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.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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