Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
– Robert Browning
And gain is gain, however small.
– Robert Browning
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
– Robert Browning
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
– Robert Browning
Faultless to a fault.
– Robert Browning
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
– Robert Browning
God is the perfect poet.
– Robert Browning
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
– Robert Browning
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
– Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
– Robert Browning
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
– Robert Browning
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
– Robert Browning
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
Love is energy of life.
– Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again.
– Robert Browning
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
– Robert Browning
O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird and all a wonder and a wild desire.
– Robert Browning
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
– Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
– Robert Browning
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
– Robert Browning
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
– Robert Browning
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
– Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
– Robert Browning
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
– 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
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
– Robert Browning
We loved, sir - used to meet: how sad and bad and mad it was - but the, how it was sweet!
– Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
– Robert Browning
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
– Robert Browning
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
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
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
– Robert Browning
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
– Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
– Robert Browning
The year’s at the spring and day’s at the morn, Morning’s at seven’ The hillsides dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snails on the thorn: God’s in his heaven – All’s right with the world!
– Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
– Robert Browning
Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
– Robert Browning
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
– Robert Browning
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
– Robert Browning
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
– Robert Browning
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
– Robert Browning
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
– Robert Browning
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
– Robert Browning
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
– Robert Browning
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
– Robert Browning
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
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
– Robert Browning
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
– Robert Browning
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.