Famous Quotes

Quotes by Robert Browning

• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
• A minute's success pays the failure of years.
• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
• God is the perfect poet.
• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
• I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
• Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
• So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
• 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.
• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.