‘Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Adversity
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Hope
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
—Robert Browning
Topics: Pleasure
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Autumn, Seasons
Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Thought, Reason, Truth
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Uncertainty
Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Fiction
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
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Lovers, Togetherness, Love
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Fighting, Discipline, Control, Self-Discovery, Fight, Self-Control, Conflict
Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Forgiveness
No sketches first, no studies, that
—Robert Browning
Topics: Art
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
Truth never hurts the teller.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Truth
Imperfection means perfection hid.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Perfection
Make us happy and you make us good.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Happiness
I … know what I do, and am unmoved by men’s blame, or their praise either.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Awareness, Acceptance, Realization
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Writers, Writing
Love is energy of life.
—Robert Browning
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Emotions
The great mind knows the power of gentleness, only tries force because persuasion fails.
—Robert Browning
Less is more.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Property, Possessions, Design
Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
—Robert Browning
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Singing
Progress is the law of life; man is not a man as yet.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Wives, Progress, Marriage
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
I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Trust
There’s a new tribunal now higher than God’s—The educated man s!
—Robert Browning
Topics: Education
Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Man
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
—Robert Browning
Topics: Solitude
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- Christina Rossetti English Poet
- Coventry Patmore English Writer
- Edmund Spenser English Poet
- John Gay English Poet, Dramatist
- Geoffrey Chaucer English Poet
- Abraham Cowley English Poet
- William Congreve English Dramatist
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