Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
- Life
- 1812-1889
- Occupations
- playwright, poet, writer
- Notable works
- The Ring and the Book
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, — all were for me
Robert Browning
Deeds let escape are never to be done.
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Error has no end.
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
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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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I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
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That low man seeks a little thing to do,
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The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
Robert Browning
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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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!
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Truth is within ourselves.
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We loved, sir — used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was — But then, how it was sweet!
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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When the fight begins within himself, A man ‘s worth something.
Robert Browning
Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.
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Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning