Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNINGWhere the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
More Robert Browning Quotes
-
-
When is man strong until he feels alone?
ROBERT BROWNING -
My sun sets to rise again.
ROBERT BROWNING -
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.
ROBERT BROWNING -
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!
ROBERT BROWNING -
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.
ROBERT BROWNING -
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 BROWNING -
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
ROBERT BROWNING -
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.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
ROBERT BROWNING -
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
ROBERT BROWNING -
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!
ROBERT BROWNING -
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Who knows most, doubts most.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
ROBERT BROWNING -
T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
ROBERT BROWNING -
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
ROBERT BROWNING -
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
ROBERT BROWNING -
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
ROBERT BROWNING -
What a thing friendship is – World without end.
ROBERT BROWNING -
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
ROBERT BROWNING