"At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now."
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Robert Browning quotes (page 11 of 17)
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"The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy."
"Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?"
"Men are not angels, neither are they brutes."
"In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle."
"The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead."
"I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best."
"Truth never hurt the teller."
"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her."
"Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now."
"O world, as God has made it! All is beauty."
"Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop."
"Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy."
"The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!"
"The world and life's too big to pass for a dream"
"Truth is truth howe'er it strike."
"All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite."
"Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?"
"Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost."
"'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls."