Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
ROBERT BROWNINGOne 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.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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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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Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Why stay on the earth except to grow.
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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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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
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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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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
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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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Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
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