If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
ROBERT BROWNINGPleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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I judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.
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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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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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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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My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
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Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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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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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
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