Robert Browning

(1812–1889) Dramaturge United Kingdom

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Robert Browning was a dramaturge from the United Kingdom, best known for The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI.

Quick Facts About Robert Browning

Born: May 7, 1812
Died: December 12, 1889
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Dramaturge
Notable works: The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI
Known for: The Ring and the Book
Spouse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

About Robert Browning

His work is praised for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and a challenging vocabulary and syntax, placing him among the leading Victorian poets.

Quotes by Robert Browning · Page 2

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

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Adventure

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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Earth

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And gain is gain, however small.

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“Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!”

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Desire

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Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

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Aspiration

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What so wild as words are?

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Language

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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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A man in armor is his armor's slave.

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Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing…I am in full sunshine now.

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Blessing

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Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

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Inspirational

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I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.

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Acceptance

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When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

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Enemy

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But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

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Freedom

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'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

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Absurd

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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

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Age

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A minute of success pays for years of failure.

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Failure

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When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to…

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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

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There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

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Consent

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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever…

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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

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Art

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Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals…

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We two With life forever old yet new, Changed not in kind but in degree, The instant made eternity

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When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

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I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but…

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Animal compassion

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our…

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Age

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For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices…

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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…

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Autumn

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Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on…

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April and spring

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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…

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“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart, As a man calls for wine before he fights, I asked one…

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Inspirational

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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…

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Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us…

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“All June, I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves, And strew them where Pauline may…

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Heaven or hell

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Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance…

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Age

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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…

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It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and…

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Actors

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“XXIV. And more than that - a furlong on - why, there! What bad use was that engine for, that wheel, Or…

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Bad dream

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Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of…

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Baby

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“I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the workings of…

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Robert Browning by topic

Inspirational (72) Love (69) Life (58) Men (35) Time (26) Nature (25) World (24) Earth (23) Heaven (22) God (22) Truth (20) Soul (20) Death (16) Joy (14) Heart (14) Pain (13)