Robert BrowningAre 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.361Truth
Robert BrowningBut there are times when patience proves at fault. ✨ Robert Browning (1835). Paracelsus, p.90373Time
Robert BrowningThis could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever. ✨ Robert Browning (2012). Browning's Shorter Poems, p.86, tredition362Sadness
Robert BrowningAny nose may ravage with impunity a rose. ✨ 'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881341Love
Robert BrowningMight she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell! ✨ 'The Last Ride Together' (1855) st. 4363Love
Robert BrowningAll we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black. ✨ '… ▶363HopeLife
Robert BrowningI say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise. ✨ Richard … ▶331Life
Robert BrowningIt is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. ✨ 'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838375ReadingTruth
Robert BrowningThe 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 (1994). Th… ▶353Time
Robert BrowningMotherhood: All love begins and ends there. ✨ Robert Browning (2014). A Selection of Poems, p.33, Cambridge University Press364Love
Robert BrowningThe sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. ✨ Robert Browning (1994). The Works of Robert Browning, p.50, Wordsworth Editio… ▶353Sadness
Robert BrowningWho knows but the world may end tonight ✨ The Last Ride Together l. 22 (1855)353Truth
Robert BrowningSuch ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. ✨ Robert Browning (1830). An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry, p.338353Love
Robert BrowningThe ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! ✨ Robert Browning (1994). The Works of Robert Browning, p.… ▶331LifePolitics
Robert BrowningGenius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint. ✨ Robert Browning (1915). The poetical works of Robert Browning376Thought
Robert BrowningEarth being so good, would heaven seem best? ✨ Robert Browning (1889). Dramatic Romances, p.54, Library of Alexandria365Love
Robert BrowningTo do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.365LifePhilosophy
Robert BrowningDesire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.332Hope
Robert BrowningMy business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. ✨ Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). Robert Browning, p.272, Oxfo… ▶343Humor
Robert BrowningWhat? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not … ▶321Truth
Robert BrowningI 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… ▶322DeathSadnessTime
Robert BrowningWhat a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake. ✨ Robert Browning (… ▶311Love
Robert BrowningOf what I call God, And fools call Nature. ✨ Robert Browning, Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler (2004). The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, p.146, Oxford University… ▶366Humanity
Robert BrowningGod's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. ✨ Robert Browning (1994). The Works of Robert Browning, p.544, Wordswort… ▶377Love
Robert BrowningAll June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ✨ Robert Browning (1994). The Works of Robert Browning, p.239, Wordsworth Editions322Philosophy
Robert BrowningDeath was past, life not come: so he waited. ✨ Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). Selections from Robert Browning, p.162, Wildside Press LLC377DeathLifeLove
Robert BrowningWomen hate a debt as men a gift. ✨ Robert Browning, Edwin Markham (1856). Men and women, p.229367Hope
Robert BrowningMan partly is and wholly hopes to be. ✨ 'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586367DeathHope
Robert BrowningMeasure your mind's height by the shade it casts. ✨ 'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 3, l. 821356Thought
Robert BrowningEvery one soon or late comes round by Rome. ✨ Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, p.21, Oxford … ▶323Reading
