Top 280 Robert Browning Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.”

— Robert Browning

202. “Praise is deeper than the lips.”

— Robert Browning

203. “Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away, – he knows: And in the live man’s stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.”

— Robert Browning

204. “My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.”

— Robert Browning

205. “One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.”

— Robert Browning

206. “Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other’s sake. That’s joy beyond joy.”

— Robert Browning

207. “The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.”

— Robert Browning

208. “Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.”

— Robert Browning

209. “I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.”

— Robert Browning

210. “As if true pride Were not also humble!”

— Robert Browning

211. “A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.”

— Robert Browning

212. “And inasmuch as feeling, the East’s gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.”

— Robert Browning

213. “All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.”

— Robert Browning

214. “Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!”

— Robert Browning

215. “Death was past, life not come: so he waited.”

— Robert Browning

216. “But there are times when patience proves at fault.”

— Robert Browning

217. “Day! Faster and more fast. O’er night’s brim, day boils at last.”

— Robert Browning

218. “Most progress is most failure.”

— Robert Browning

219. “Since there my past life lies, why alter it?”

— Robert Browning

220. “Sing, riding ’s a joy! For me I ride.”

— Robert Browning

221. “In God’s good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.”

— Robert Browning

222. “Our business was done at the river’s brink;.”

— Robert Browning

223. “Look not down but up!”

— Robert Browning

224. “So free we seem, so fettered we are!”

— Robert Browning

225. “All poetry is difficult to read – The sense of it anyhow.”

— Robert Browning

226. “Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?”

— Robert Browning

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

— Robert Browning

228. “Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”

— Robert Browning

229. “Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?”

— Robert Browning

230. “Though Rome’s gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.”

— Robert Browning

231. “Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.”

— Robert Browning

232. “There’s a new tribunal now higher than God’s -The educated man’s!”

— Robert Browning

233. “O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth’s male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.”

— Robert Browning

234. “Graved inside of it, “Italy”.”

— Robert Browning

235. “The past is gained, secure, and on record.”

— Robert Browning

236. “The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!”

— Robert Browning

237. “O lyric love! half angel half bird.”

— Robert Browning

238. “Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.”

— Robert Browning

239. “We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.”

— Robert Browning

240. “Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!”

— Robert Browning

241. “For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man’s loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.”

— Robert Browning

242. “And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.”

— Robert Browning

243. “Truth is truth howe’er it strike.”

— Robert Browning

244. “At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.”

— Robert Browning

245. “The only fault’s with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!”

— Robert Browning

246. “The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.”

— Robert Browning

247. “But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.”

— Robert Browning

248. “Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.”

— Robert Browning

249. “And gain is gain, however small.”

— Robert Browning

250. “Say not “a small event!” Why “small”? Costs it more pain that this ye call A “great event” should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!”

— Robert Browning