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.
ROBERT BROWNINGLofty designs must close in like effects.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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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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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
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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 curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.
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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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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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A minute of success pays for years of failure.
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Grow 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!
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Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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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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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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