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Man Quotes by Robert Browning
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
- Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
- How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
- Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
- There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
- Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
- Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
- Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
- 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…
- 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…
- When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday
- Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
- I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.
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