"But how carve way i' the life that……" — Robert Browning
"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"
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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
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