Robert Browning Quotes

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• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
• Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
• But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
• 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!
• Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
• Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
• That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
• Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
• Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

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