What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
ROBERT BROWNINGBut what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
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Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.
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T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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A minute of success pays for years of failure.
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At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Such ever was love’s way: to rise, it stoops.
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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All’s love, yet all’s law.
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