"Better have failed in the high aim, as……" — Robert Browning
"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."
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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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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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