Browning, Robert
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Browning, Robert
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.
Browning, Robert
Defeat
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
Browning, Robert
Catholicism
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
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Desire
There s a new tribunal now higher than God s --The educated man s!
Browning, Robert
Education
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Browning, Robert
Emotions
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool s living waters.
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Joy
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Browning, Robert
Ignorance
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
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Curiosity
Our interest s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Fiction
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
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Freedom
And gain is gain, however small.
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Gain
A man s reach should exceed his grasp, or what s heaven for?
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Goals
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Browning, Robert
Hope
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
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Lovers
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Browning, Robert
Love
I count life just a stuff to try the soul s strength on.
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Life and Living
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
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Inspiration
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ s particular love s sake!
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Missionaries
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Possibilities
My sun sets to rise again.
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Optimism
Less is more.
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Possessions
That s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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Song and Singing
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
Browning, Robert
Uncertainty
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.
Browning, Robert
Truth
Truth never hurts the teller.
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Truth
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
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Sincerity
A minute s success pays the failure of years.
Browning, Robert
Success
When the fight begins within himself, a man s worth something.
Browning, Robert
Self-control
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Autumn
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Browning, Robert
Ambition
Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Browning, Robert
Ambition
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Browning, Robert
Ambition
Ah, but a man s reach should exceed his grasp, or what s a heaven for?
Browning, Robert
Ambition
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry s haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Browning, Robert
Effort
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Browning, Robert
Courage
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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Age and Aging
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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Age and Aging
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
Browning, Robert
Age and Aging
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Browning, Robert
Writers and Writing
The year s at the spring; And day s at the morn; Morning s at seven; The hill-side s dew-pearled; The lark s on the wing; The snail s on the thorn: God s in his heaven, All s right with the world!
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World
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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Youth