Why stay on the earth except to grow.
ROBERT BROWNING
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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!
Robert BrowningRobert Browning On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
Robert BrowningRobert 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 BrowningRobert Browning Lofty designs must close in like effects.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning All’s love, yet all’s law.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Robert BrowningRobert 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.
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