At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
ROBERT BROWNINGEscape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
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There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
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I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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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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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
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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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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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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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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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