Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Poet, Playwright

Robert Browning was a 19th-century English poet known for his innovative use of dramatic monologues and exploration of complex human emotions.

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Born
May 7, 1812
Died
December 12, 1889
Quotes
333
Rank
#548

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"Tis looking downward makes one dizzy."

Adversity Dizzy
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"Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart."

Strength Waste Doom
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"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

Failure Succeed Lows
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"I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know."

Want Might Gains
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"I am grown peaceful as old age tonight."

Peace Age Tonight
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"We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire."

Song Bidding Done
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"Shun death, is my advice."

Death Advice
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"Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure."

Time
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"Never the time and the place And the loved one all together."

Love Life Together
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"Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth"

Running Morning Autumn
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"The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!"

Devil Way Fiddle
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"No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold."

Life Pain Hero
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"As if true pride Were not also humble!"

Humble Pride Ifs
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"Smiling the boy fell dead."

Boys
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"I do what many dream of, all their lives"

Dream Action
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"Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her"

Heart Next Trouble
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"'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you."

Spring Angel Heaven
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"But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty."

Liberty Littles
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