Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
ROBERT BROWNINGBest be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
ROBERT BROWNINGEarth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
ROBERT BROWNINGOn the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
ROBERT BROWNINGLove, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
ROBERT BROWNINGRejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
ROBERT BROWNINGGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
ROBERT BROWNINGGod 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.
ROBERT BROWNINGIf all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
ROBERT BROWNINGGod is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.
ROBERT BROWNINGMost progress is most failure.
ROBERT BROWNINGMy business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
ROBERT BROWNINGI count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
ROBERT BROWNINGPleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
ROBERT BROWNINGWhat Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
ROBERT BROWNINGI judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.
ROBERT BROWNINGSuch ever was love’s way: to rise, it stoops.
ROBERT BROWNING