Robert Browning Quotes

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning

Time, Together, Place

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning

Thought, Sudden, Stung

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning

Life, Great, Try

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
Robert Browning

Him, Tis, Exalts

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning

Life, Good, Business

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

Music, Once, Solitude

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning

Age, Death, Dream

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

Heaven, Reach, Exceed

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
Robert Browning

God, Succeed, High

Faultless to a fault.
Robert Browning

Fault, Faultless

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning

God, Justice, Until

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning

Life, Strength, Try

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

Beauty, Trust, Nature

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning

Good, Truth, Art

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning

Mind, Measure, Shade

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
Robert Browning

Fight, Worth, Himself

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
Robert Browning

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Robert Browning

England, Oh, April

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning

Pain, Passion, Hearts

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning

Wise, Song, Fine

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning

Strength, Sea, Land

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning

God, Art, Single

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning

Him, Tis, Exalts

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning

Soul, Stop, Left

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: May 7, 1812

Died: December 12, 1889

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