My sun sets to rise again.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Optimism
The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in his heaven—
All’s right with the world!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Seasons, World, Optimism
Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Fiction
And gain is gain, however small.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Profit
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Writers, Writing
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Courage, Bravery
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
Topics: Defeat
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Inspirational, Inspiration
Where the apple reddens never pry—lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Curiosity
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Age, Aging
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Self-Discovery, Control, Fight, Discipline, Self-Control, Conflict, Fighting
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Youth
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Romance
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Autumn, Seasons
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Desire, Desires
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Pleasure
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Uncertainty
‘Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Ambition, Trying
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don’t really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Golf
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best God invents.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Beauty
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Love, Togetherness, Lovers
Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Forgiveness
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
—Robert Browning
Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Mind
Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Man
Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Ambition
A man’s worth something.
—Robert Browning
No sketches first, no studies, that.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Art
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Love
Truth never hurts the teller.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Truth
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