Lost Quotes by Robert Browning

9 Lost quotes by Robert Browning

Robert Browning’s nine short passages capture the uneasy stir of being off‑track. You’ll find a modest set that hints at his Victorian voice while wrestling with uncertainty.

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Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

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This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.

Robert Browning

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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.

Robert Browning

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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see…

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How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he…

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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…

Robert Browning

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O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a…

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“Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, One more devils’-triumph and…

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I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I…

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I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused,…

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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.”

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All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

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“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold…

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“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and…

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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

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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 in joy!

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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

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The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

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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 times are…

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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

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Look not down but up!

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What a thing friendship is - World without end.

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Silence 'tis awe decrees.

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