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 BROWNINGT’was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
More Robert Browning Quotes
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
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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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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!
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Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
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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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Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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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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God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
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No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man’s worth something.
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Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’
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Truth never hurts the teller.
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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