"Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar."
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Robert Browning quotes (page 9 of 17)
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"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made."
"Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to."
"When is man strong until he feels alone?"
"Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl."
"Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything."
"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."
"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."
"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."
"He guides me and the bird. In His good time!"
"The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride."
"Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine."
"Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain"
"What a thing friendship is - World without end."
"Most progress is most failure."
"I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize."
"Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best."
"Why stay on the earth except to grow."
"All's love, yet all's law."