Robert Browning Quotes

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• The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
• And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
• You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes…
• Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I and she . . .
• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!
• 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.
• The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
• Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
• Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was…
• This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er…
• In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
• Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
• Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
• My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
• The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
• Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
• Truth never hurt the teller.

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