Robert Browning Quotes

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

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

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.
Robert Browning

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; these are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Good, to forgive; best to forget.
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I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
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Love is energy of life.
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.
Robert Browning

And gain is gain, however small.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning

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.
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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God is the perfect poet, who in his person acts his own creations.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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.
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