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 BROWNINGMy business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
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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.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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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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Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
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Earth is crammed with heavens.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
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