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Famous Robert Browning Quotes
“Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!”
“I heard this drop and drop like rain outside Fast-falling through the darkness while she spoke...”
“Never the time and the place and the loved one altogether”
“God’s in His heaven— All’s right with the world!”
“I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.”
“Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.”
“From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
“T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.”
“I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.”
“Never brag, never bluster, never blush.”
“The past is gained, secure, and on record.”
“I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.”
“Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.”
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
“But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.”
“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”
“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”
“When pain ends, gain ends too.”
“The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.”
“Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.”
“The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.”
“Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!”
“Make us happy and you make us good.”
“Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.”
“All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.”
“Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.”