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Robert Browning Quotes (1812-1889)
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About Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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“Strive and thrive!”
“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”
“Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride.”
“When is man strong until he feels alone?”
“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”
“In the great right of an excessive wrong.”
“Other heights in other lives, God willing.”
“A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?”
“Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.”
May ravage with impunity a rose.”
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
“What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.”
And was not, comforts me.”
“He said true things, but called them by the wrong names.”
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
“The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.”
And damned, and truth stood up instead.”
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Robert Browning on God 5 quotes
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“Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own—my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!”
Robert Browning on Success 2 quotes
“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 on Prayer 2 quotes
“Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid!”
Robert Browning on Simplicity
“Less is more.”
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Robert Browning on Women 5 quotes
“Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning on William Wordsworth
Robert Browning on William Shakespeare
Robert Browning on Avianus
“Avianus can scarcely be called a poet. His tasteless, strained, imprecise Latin, with its constant inappropriate Virgilian reminiscences, might have been written by a nineteenth-century public schoolboy.”
Robert Browning on Harriet Martineau
“What a visitation! Miss Martineau is the more formidable friend, however—Mrs. Jameson will be contented with a little confidence, you see, and ask no questions—but I doubt if you arrange matters so easily with the newcomer. Because no great delicacy can be kept alive with all that conceit—and such conceit! A lady told me a few weeks ago that she had seen a letter in which Miss M. gave as her reason for not undertaking then, during the London season, this very journey which empty London is to benefit from now, "that at such a time she should be mobbed to death": whereupon the lady went on to comment, "Miss M. little knows what London is, and how many nearly as notable objects may be found to divert its truculence from herself"—Tom Thumb, and Ibrahim Pacha, to wit.”
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G. K. Chesterton on Robert Browning 2 quotes
“He concentrated on the special souls of men; seeking God in a series of personal interviews.”
Helen Keller on Robert Browning
“If Browning were less difficult to read, he would surely be the dominant poet in this century. I feel the ecstasy with which he exclaims, “Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth this autumn morning!" And how he sets my brain going when he says, because there is imperfection, there must be perfection; completeness must come of incompleteness; failure is an evidence of triumph for the fulness of the days. Yes, discord is, that harmony may be; pain destroys, that health may renew; perhaps I am deaf and blind that others likewise afflicted may see and hear with a more perfect sense! From Browning I learn that there is no lost good, and that makes it easier for me to go at life, right or wrong, do the best I know, and fear not. My heart responds proudly to his exhortation to pay gladly life's debt of pain, darkness and cold. Lift up your burden, it is God's gift, bear it nobly.”
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About Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.