"Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more……" — Robert Browning
"Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies."
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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 Athwart Quotes
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
— William Shakespeare
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down;…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she…
— William Shakespeare
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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and…
— Walt Whitman
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