"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping…" — Robert Browning
"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it."
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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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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
— Daniel Boone
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view…
— Lord Byron
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and…
— Martin Luther
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A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the…
— James Grahame
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Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my…
— Unknown Author
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It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with…
— Rachel Billington
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care,…
— Washington Irving
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