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 BROWNINGNo, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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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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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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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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My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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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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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Most progress is most failure.
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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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What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
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