Robert Browning Quotes

• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

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• I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.

  Robert Browning

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• Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.

  Robert Browning

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• Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied.

  Robert Browning

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• What’s become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip?

  Robert Browning

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• The moth’s kiss, first ! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up.

  Robert Browning

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• My scrofulous French novel On grey paper with blunt type!

  Robert Browning

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• There’s a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails.

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• Like a god going thro ’ his world there stands One mountain, for a moment in the dusk, Whole brotherhoods of cedars on its brow.

  Robert Browning

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• The year’s at the spring, And days 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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• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

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• Love is the energy of life.

  Robert Browning

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• My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

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• Less is more.

  Robert Browning

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• Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

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• As is your sort of mind,
  So is your sort of search:
  You will find what you desire.

  Robert Browning

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• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

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• Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Fear, Humanity, Love

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• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

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• ‘Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

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Robert Browning (128)

Birth:	7th May, 1812
Death:	12th March, 1890
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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