Quotes By Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

God is the perfect poet.

My sun sets to rise again.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Love is energy of life.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.