Robert Browning Quotes

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• Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through…
• Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
• Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
• Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
• What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
• Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
• Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine…
• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,…
• Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere…
• A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass…
• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far…
• "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of…
• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the…
• Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
• Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
• A lion may die of an ass's kick.
• God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

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