Robert Browning quotes - page 11

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright, renowned for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His works, including "The Ring and the Book" and "My Last Duchess," greatly influenced Victorian poetry. He is celebrated for his innovative use of language and insight into the human mind. Here are 271 of his quotes:

I hear you reproach, 'But delay was best, For their end was a crime.' Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view ...... Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Isthe unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

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The only faults with time All men become good creatures but so slow.

Robert Browning

Theres a new tribunal now, Higher than Godsthe educated mans.

Robert Browning

Might she have loved me just as well She might have hated, who can tell.

Robert Browning

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say, not by his performance which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be, not are, nor will be.

Robert Browning

O never star Was lost here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time I press Gods lamp Close to my breast its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

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All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt We called the chess-board whitewe call it black.

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He guides me and the bird. In His good time.

Robert Browning

No let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.

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So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon.

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Truth never hurt the teller.

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Grow old with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, For which, the first is made.

Robert Browning

I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ - Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee - All questions in the earth and out of it, And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Robert Browning

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.

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Sappho survives, because we sing her songs And schylus, because we read his plays.

Robert Browning

I find earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.

Robert Browning

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, - wonder, wealth, and - how far above them -.

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Be there, for once and all, Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, Were they, my soul disdained, Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last! Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?

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