Explore Quotes by Robert Browning

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

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

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Truth is within ourselves.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.