Robert Browning Quotes
94 Robert Browning quotes:
"Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I."
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"To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And, baffled, get up and begin again"
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"When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy"
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"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls."
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"She had / A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed."
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"This is a heart the Queen leant on."
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"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist."
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"I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep"
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"No pain felt she; / I am quite sure she felt no pain."
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"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."
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"Why need the other women know so much?"
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"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."
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"Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; / Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz bay."
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"Others mistrust and say: "But time escapes - live now or never!" He said: "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes - Man has For ever"
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"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."
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"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."
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"Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine!"
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