| 76 Famous Quotes by Robert Browning
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“God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Pippa Passes (pt. I)
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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 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 Source: Saul (st. 7)
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“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Saul (XVIII)
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“All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.”
Roses Quotes 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 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 Source: Abt Vogler (IX)
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
Heaven Quotes Source: Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
Man Quotes 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 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 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 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 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 Source: Ceuciaja
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“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Justice Quotes 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 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 Source: Cleon
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“From the sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Islands Quotes Source: Cleon
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“So may glory from defect arise.”
Glory Quotes Source: Deaf and Dumb
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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 Source: A Death in the Desert
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“Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do the best to climb, and get to him.”
Progress Quotes Source: Paracelsus (last page)
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“Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.”
Progress Quotes Source: Paracelsus (pt. V)
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“Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.”
Voice Quotes Source: Flight of the Duchess (st. 15)
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“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Flight of the Duchess (XVI)
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“It's a long time between drinks.”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Flight of the Duchess (XVI)
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