Robert Browning Quotes

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• Other heights in other lives, God willing.
• Life is an empty dream.
• Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
• That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
• Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks…
• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called…
• Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
• O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea…
• Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!
• For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge…
• Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
• All's love, yet all's law.
• Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.
• O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.
• I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust…
• In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
• They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.
• I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his…

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