Robert Browning Quotes
Robert Browning Quotes
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
1862 Love is the energy of life.
2907 Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
3940 My sun sets to rise again.
2977 There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
1562 Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
2385 The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm;
1145 Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
2280 Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character
1334 Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
2695 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.
3356 A lion may die of an ass's kick.
4213 Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,
One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,
One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,
One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
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