Robert Browning Quotes

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• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held…
• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
• The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about…
• Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
• There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
• Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
• What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
• What joy is better than news of friends?
• Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
• So free we seem, so fettered we are!
• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.
• Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
• There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which…
• All service is the same with God.
• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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