Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
ROBERT BROWNINGIf all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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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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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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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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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
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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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T’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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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 Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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Who knows most, doubts most.
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
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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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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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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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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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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
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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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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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Truth is within ourselves.
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I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.
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