Quotes by

Robert Browning

And gain is gain, however small. – Robert Browning

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

My sun sets to rise again. – Robert Browning

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christs particular loves sake! – Robert Browning

Our aspirations are our possibilities. – Robert Browning

The year – Robert Browning

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

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. – Robert Browning

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. – Robert Browning

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistrys haunting curse, the Incomplete! – Robert Browning

Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp,
Or whats a heaven for? – Robert Browning

Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. – Robert Browning

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

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

I count life just a stuff to try the souls strength on. – Robert Browning

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded oer the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. – Robert Browning

A minutes success pays the failure of years. – Robert Browning

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

Finds progress, mans distinctive mark alone, Not Gods, and not the beasts God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. – Robert Browning