"Just for a handful of silver he left……" — Robert Browning
"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."
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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 Coat Quotes
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one of 393 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
— Russell Baker
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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
— Clara Barton
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
— Robert Benchley
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
— Albert Brooks
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
— Tracy Chapman
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for…
— Hillary Clinton
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
— Dorothy Allison
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a…
— Harold Wilson
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
— Austin Phelps
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another…
— James F. Cooper
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