Robert Browning
33 quotations
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s!
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
And gain is gain, however small.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
My sun sets to rise again.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Less is more.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.