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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!


Robert Browning

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HENRY N. BEARD To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU However great the task may be, the outcome will be greater.
JASON T. SURGAUX Never be scared to aim too high; sooner or later you'll leave the atmosphere where fate and gravity ...
DEVIN FRYE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....
JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG It's dramatic monologues, almost like Robert Browning.
JOSEPH GRAVES I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo...
CONSTANCE WU I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.
PATTI DIGH Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec...
SHERRY THOMAS Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST Fuel your life with passion.
TERESA COLLINS Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.
KARINA BLISS Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin...
AKIROQ BROST To be, or not to be: what a question!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER Each day is a gift
To embrace and welcome
KAREN HACKEL Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE Human sympathy has its limits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character
ROBERT BROWNING I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Every new day provides for you the opportunity to be your very best
SOTONYE ANGA Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp ...
ROBERT BROWNING So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be than...
ROBERT BROWNING I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn ga...
ROBERT BROWNING Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
ROBERT BROWNING Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, A...
ROBERT BROWNING Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
ROBERT BROWNING God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world!
ROBERT BROWNING What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
ROBERT BROWNING This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.
ROBERT BROWNING Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow...
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
ROBERT BROWNING I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
ROBERT BROWNING Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
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 Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
ROBERT BROWNING One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dr...
ROBERT BROWNING When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
ROBERT BROWNING No sketches first, no studies, that
ROBERT BROWNING O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
ROBERT BROWNING It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
With pas...
ROBERT BROWNING Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
ROBERT BROWNING So free we seem, so fettered we are!
ROBERT BROWNING The year
ROBERT BROWNING Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
ROBERT BROWNING That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recaptur...
ROBERT BROWNING Less is more.
ROBERT BROWNING And gain is gain, however small.
ROBERT BROWNING Our aspirations are our possibilities.
ROBERT BROWNING What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
ROBERT BROWNING Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sak...
ROBERT BROWNING Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
ROBERT BROWNING Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
ROBERT BROWNING My sun sets to rise again.
ROBERT BROWNING Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten ...
ROBERT BROWNING What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
ROBERT BROWNING 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
ROBERT BROWNING Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
ROBERT BROWNING Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
ROBERT BROWNING Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
ROBERT BROWNING It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than...
ROBERT BROWNING Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
ROBERT BROWNING There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.
ROBERT BROWNING All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
ROBERT BROWNING Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
ROBERT BROWNING Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
ROBERT BROWNING No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
ROBERT BROWNING 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
ROBERT BROWNING The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
ROBERT BROWNING It's a long time between drinks.
ROBERT BROWNING When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
ROBERT BROWNING Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some mor...
ROBERT BROWNING A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
ROBERT BROWNING God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinq...
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Day! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last; Boils, pure gold, o'er ...
ROBERT BROWNING A minute's success pays the failure of years.
ROBERT BROWNING I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestal...
ROBERT BROWNING To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
ROBERT BROWNING Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
ROBERT BROWNING No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
ROBERT BROWNING A minute's success pays the failure of years.
ROBERT BROWNING Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
ROBERT BROWNING Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
ROBERT BROWNING All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
ROBERT BROWNING Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BROWNING Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
ROBERT BROWNING If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
ROBERT BROWNING The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While c...
ROBERT BROWNING Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
ROBERT BROWNING Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
ROBERT BROWNING Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to...
ROBERT BROWNING Love is energy of life.
ROBERT BROWNING What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a...
ROBERT BROWNING So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
ROBERT BROWNING But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes...
ROBERT BROWNING One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dr...
ROBERT BROWNING Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
ROBERT BROWNING I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
ROBERT BROWNING Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
ROBERT BROWNING All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
ROBERT BROWNING how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
ROBERT BROWNING There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, ...
ROBERT BROWNING My star, God's glowworm.
ROBERT BROWNING So may glory from defect arise.
ROBERT BROWNING In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird In his good time.
ROBERT BROWNING Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet.
ROBERT BROWNING Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, An...
ROBERT BROWNING Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are...
ROBERT BROWNING For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the ear...
ROBERT BROWNING Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, a...
ROBERT BROWNING Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pede...
ROBERT BROWNING The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down f...
ROBERT BROWNING Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
ROBERT BROWNING Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
ROBERT BROWNING For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,-- Shall life succeed in that it seems to...
ROBERT BROWNING I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forg...
ROBERT BROWNING Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me-- (When fortune's malice Lost her Cal...
ROBERT BROWNING From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
ROBERT BROWNING Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their...
ROBERT BROWNING What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No...
ROBERT BROWNING Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
ROBERT BROWNING Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt an...
ROBERT BROWNING But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
ROBERT BROWNING What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept...
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Truth never hurts the teller.
ROBERT BROWNING Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There i...
ROBERT BROWNING Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one...
ROBERT BROWNING "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting u...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedesta...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so b...
ROBERT BROWNING It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to m...
ROBERT BROWNING The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ROBERT BROWNING That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thin...
ROBERT BROWNING In the great right of an excessive wrong.
ROBERT BROWNING One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Ne...
ROBERT BROWNING Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
ROBERT BROWNING Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
ROBERT BROWNING Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
ROBERT BROWNING In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise...
ROBERT BROWNING Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no?
ROBERT BROWNING Four great walls in the New Jerusalem, / Meted on each side by the angel's reed, / For Leonard, Rafa...
ROBERT BROWNING Reads verse and thinks she understands.
ROBERT BROWNING So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, / Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
ROBERT BROWNING Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I - and she
ROBERT BROWNING So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
ROBERT BROWNING God is the perfect poet.
ROBERT BROWNING Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; / Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, r...
ROBERT BROWNING Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome.
ROBERT BROWNING But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main ac...
ROBERT BROWNING A fierce vindictive scribble of red.
ROBERT BROWNING The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheek...
ROBERT BROWNING Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be p...
ROBERT BROWNING The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
ROBERT BROWNING They're not very talented, but they didn't give up. They hustled, they worked and they did what they...
ROBERT BROWNING Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor ...
ROBERT BROWNING Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstit...
ROBERT BROWNING Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.
ROBERT BROWNING It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - ...
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.
ROBERT BROWNING There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
ROBERT BROWNING Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our t...
ROBERT BROWNING Oh, to be in England Now that April's there
ROBERT BROWNING Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / ...
ROBERT BROWNING Just the one prize vouchsafed unworthy me, / Seven years a gardener of the untoward ground.
ROBERT BROWNING Boston's a hole, the herring-pond is wide.
ROBERT BROWNING There's a great text in Galatians, / Once you trip on it, entails / Twenty-nine distinct damnations,...
ROBERT BROWNING What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
ROBERT BROWNING Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar.
ROBERT BROWNING But there are times when patience proves at fault.
ROBERT BROWNING O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
ROBERT BROWNING Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preach...
ROBERT BROWNING A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live ...
ROBERT BROWNING God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
ROBERT BROWNING The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled...
ROBERT BROWNING When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? ...
ROBERT BROWNING Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose
ROBERT BROWNING But facts are facts and flinch not
ROBERT BROWNING Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, / And blew.
ROBERT BROWNING Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.
ROBERT BROWNING So free we seem, so fettered fast we are
ROBERT BROWNING I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gr...
ROBERT BROWNING Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops
ROBERT BROWNING Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,/ The not-incurious in God's handiwork.
ROBERT BROWNING With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.
ROBERT BROWNING White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's bus...
ROBERT BROWNING It was roses, roses, all the way, / With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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 Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
ROBERT BROWNING Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth
ROBERT BROWNING All service ranks the same with God: With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no la...
ROBERT BROWNING God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod
ROBERT BROWNING All's over, then; does truth sound bitter / As one at first believes? / Hark, 'tis the sparrows' goo...
ROBERT BROWNING I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tourn...
ROBERT BROWNING Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
ROBERT BROWNING Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
ROBERT BROWNING All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
ROBERT BROWNING One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
ROBERT BROWNING How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
ROBERT BROWNING I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
ROBERT BROWNING Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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