Robert Browning Quotes
Most popular Robert Browning Quotes
Less is more.
Consume your own smoke.
Love, I say, is energy of life.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Stung by the splendor of sudden thought.
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
'Tis looking downward that makes one dizzy.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.
I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller.
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.
There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for.
Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
All service is the same with God, With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
