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.

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

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"He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace."

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"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."

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"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."

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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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"There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without."

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"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."

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"There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter."

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"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

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"The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false."

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"T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft."

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"Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth."

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"Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you."

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"grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made."

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"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."

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"And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!"

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