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!
ROBERT BROWNINGMotherhood: All love begins and ends there.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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When is man strong until he feels alone?
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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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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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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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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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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All’s love, yet all’s law.
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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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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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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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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