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 BROWNINGLofty designs must close in like effects.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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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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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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The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’
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Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
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When is man strong until he feels alone?
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
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To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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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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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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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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