Quotes By Robert Browning

My sun sets to rise again.

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

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Love is energy of life.

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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

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

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

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!

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.