Quotes by Robert Browning

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

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"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

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"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."

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"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

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"Love is energy of life."

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"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

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"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"

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"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."

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

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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

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"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

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"God is the perfect poet."

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