"What a name! Was it love or praise?……" — Robert Browning
"What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake."
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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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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful…
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
— Robert Browning
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Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.
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Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
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