Robert Browning Quotes

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• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. All
• So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Asleep
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Away Love
• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Appeal
• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Age
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Ah
• God is the perfect poet. Cities
• Love is energy of life. Energy
• 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… Baffled
• Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Hurt
• Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. 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. Defeat
• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Aim
• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Hears
• All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. All
• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. Attitude
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Change
• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut,… Arms
• 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. Age
• A minute's success pays the failure of years. Business

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