Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
ROBERT BROWNINGWhat Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
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But 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.
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I judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.
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There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
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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.
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You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o’ercomes doubt.
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Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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God is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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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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Why stay on the earth except to grow.
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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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My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
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Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
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