What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
ROBERT BROWNINGBut how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
More Robert Browning Quotes
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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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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You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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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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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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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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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.
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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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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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