Robert Browning Quotes

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• If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
• The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
• The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What…
• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve…
• The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
• Truth is within ourselves.
• Truth never hurts the teller.
• Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince…
• For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
• I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as…
• He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
• Since there my past life lies, why alter it?
• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines…
• In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.
• When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday
• Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And…
• What a thing friendship is - World without end.
• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

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