Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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.
Robert Browning
Error has no end.
Robert Browning
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.
Robert Browning
I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
Robert Browning
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
Robert Browning
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning
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
Truth is within ourselves.
Robert Browning
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
When the fight begins within himself, A man ‘s worth something.
Robert Browning
Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning