Robert Browning Quotes

• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Before, Old, Rather

• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Forward, Sleep, Fight

• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Perfect, Broken, Earth

• Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.

  Robert Browning

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• Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Together, Place, Loved

• My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Sun, Rise

• Love is energy of life.

  Robert Browning

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• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Best

• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Beauty, Trust

  Tags in End

• 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.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in God

  Tags in Fight

• I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Strength, Try

• How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Heart, Living

• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Best, Old, Grow

• Faultless to a fault.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Fault, Faultless

• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Alone, Men, Words

• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Laugh, Eye, Keep

• Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Ambition

• A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Minute

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

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Meet, Temptation

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

  Robert Browning

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  Tags in Tis, Does

Robert Browning (128)

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

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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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