| 76 Famous Quotes by Robert Browning
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“That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.”
Action Quotes Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.”
Action Quotes Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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“That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.”
Success Quotes Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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“Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.”
Success Quotes Source: The Inn Album (IV)
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“O world as God has made it! All is beauty.”
World Quotes Source: Guardian Angel--A Picture at Fano
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“Oh, to be in England,
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England--now.”
England Quotes Source: Home Thoughts from Abroad
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“All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.”
Buttercups Quotes Source: Home Thoughts--From Abroad
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“"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: House (X)
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“No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.”
Character Quotes Source: Men and Women--Bishop Blougram's Apology
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“But there are times when patience proves at fault.”
Patience Quotes Source: Paracelsus (sc. 3)
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“Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!”
Prayer Quotes Source: Instans Tyrannus (VII)
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“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”
Mind Quotes Source: Paracelsus (II)
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“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: Pippa Passes (sc. 1)
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“Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote.”
Fortune Quotes Source: The Lost Leader, referring to Wordsworth when he turned Tory
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“This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Youth and Art (XVII)
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“My star, God's glowworm.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: Popularity
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“In the great right of an excessive wrong.”
Wrongs Quotes Source: The Ring and the Book--The other Half--Rome (l. 1,055)
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“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Change Quotes Source: Rabbi Ben Ezra (st. 27)
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“I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God--the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures;
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward, Nature's good
And God's.”
Nature Quotes Source: A Soul's Tragedy (act I)
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“In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.”
Providence Quotes Source: Paracelsus (pt. I)
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“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Autumn Quotes Source: Paracelsus (sc. 1)
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“A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.”
Society Quotes Source: Luria (act V, l. 334)
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“Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the
gold
Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”
Hair Quotes Source: Men and Women--A Toccata of Galuppi's (st. 15)
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“Let my hand,
This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;
Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!”
Friends Quotes Source: Paracelsus (sc. 5)
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“To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”
Evening Quotes Source: The Ring and the Book--Pompilia (l. 357)
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