Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
ROBERT BROWNINGWhat Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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I judge people by what they might be, – not are, nor will be.
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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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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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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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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
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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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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.
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The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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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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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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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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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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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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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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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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Truth is within ourselves.
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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.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on.
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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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What a thing friendship is – World without end.
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