"Tis not what man Does which exalts him,……" — Robert Browning
"Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"
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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 Exalts Quotes
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
— Saint Augustine
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
— John Dryden
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with…
— George Eliot
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There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor…
— Marion G. Romney
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Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
— Edward Abbey
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they…
— Noam Chomsky
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but…
— Ernst Haeckel
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