Robert Browning Quotes

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• The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
• A minute of success pays for years of failure.
• Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
• In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise,…
• Most progress is most failure.
• Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
• Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
• Faultless to a fault.
• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased…
• He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
• How good is life, the mere living!
• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is,…
• All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
• All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
• That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere…
• No work begun shall ever pause for death.
• Love is the energy of life.
• That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.

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