76 Famous Quotes by Robert Browning
5/7/1812 - 12/12/1889
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Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
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Day!
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim.
Day
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Introduction to Pippa Passes
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To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
Evening
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: The Ring and the Book--Pompilia (l. 357)
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What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Growth
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: A Death in the Desert (l. 447)
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Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
Friendship
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Saul (st. 7)
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Roses
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: One Way of Love
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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 flight better,
Sleep to wake.
Courage
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Epilogue--Asolando
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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.
Goodness
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Abt Vogler (IX)
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Man
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)
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It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce:
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That, after Last, returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best, can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Comparisons
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Apparent Failure (VII)
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Past
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Balaustion's Adventure
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There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
Chastity
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (act I, sc. 3)
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.
Poverty
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: By the Fireside (st. 39)
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.
Justice
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Ceuciaja
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Justice
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Ceuciaja
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For the preacher's merit or demerit,
It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer
In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,
But the main thing is, does it hold good measure
Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
Preaching
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Christmas Eve (canto XXII)
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And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.
Soul
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: Cleon
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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.
Progress
Quotes, by Robert Browning , Source: A Death in the Desert
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