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Robert Browning - From the Aging category:
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Aging category:
What Youth deemed crystal, / Age finds out was dew. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Aging category:
Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, for which the first was made. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Aging category:
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Ambition category:
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Anxiety category:
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. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Art category:
What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth, we shall practice in heaven. / Works done least rapidly, Art most cherishes. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Beauty category:
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Choices category:
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Destiny category:
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Earth category:
- Abt Vogler...
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Effort category:
- The Ring and the Book...
Inscribe all human effort with one word, / Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Eroticism category:
The moment eternal - just that and no more - / When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core / While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Experience category:
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, / Lest you should think he never could recapture / The first fine careless rapture. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Failure category:
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. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Failure category:
A minute's success pays the failure of years. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Finishing category:
- Abt Vogler...
Well, it is gone at last, the palace of music I reared; / Gone! and the good tears start, the praises that come too slow; / For one is assured at first, one scarce can say that he feared, / That he even gave it a thought, the gone thing was to go. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Friendship category:
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Hope category:
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Joy category:
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Life category:
We mortals cross the ocean of this world / Each in his average cabin of a life. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Limitations category:
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Love category:
Love is energy of life. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Love category:
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Music category:
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Nature category:
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Obscurity category:
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. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Perfection category:
Faultless to a fault. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Poetry category:
God is the perfect poet. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Prayer category:
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Renewal category:
My sun sets to rise again. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Shock category:
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Sight category:
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Simplicity category:
-Andrea del Sarto, 1855...
Less is more. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Sleep category:
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Strength category:
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Struggle category:
No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Subject category:
Here's a subject made to your hand! (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Success category:
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Thought category:
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Travel category:
Oh, to be in England now that April's there. (Robert Browning)
Robert Browning - From the Trust category:
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. (Robert Browning)
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