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 BROWNINGI give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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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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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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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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I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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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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Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
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