Robert Browning Quotes

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
• So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
• God is the perfect poet.
• Love is energy of life.
• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at…
• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
• Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
• I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut,…
• What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
• A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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