"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is……" — Robert Browning
"And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable."
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Robert Browning
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262 Quotes by Robert Browning
Robert Browning has 262 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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God is the perfect poet.
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Love is energy of life.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry…
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to…
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More Durable Quotes
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Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
— Max Baucus
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when…
— Annie Besant
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that…
— George Mikes
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People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
— Bertolt Brecht
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge…
— Unknown Author
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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A…
— Willy Brandt
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with…
— Raymond Chandler
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds…
— Benjamin Rush
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The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is…
— Martin Luther
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