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“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Other heights in other lives, God willing.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Stanza xii.
One Word More (1855)

“Was there nought better than to enjoy?
No feat which, done, would make time break,
And let us pent-up creatures through
Into eternity, our due?
No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Dis aliter visum; or, Le Byron de nos Jours.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is so horrible,
I dare at times imagine to my need
Some future state revealed to us by Zeus”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

From Cleon; regarding death and afterlife

“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Abt Vogler, ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Have they fancies — slow, perchance,
Not at their beck, which indistinctly glance
Until by song each floating part be linked
To each, and all grow palpable, distinct?
He pondered this.”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the Second
Sordello (1840)

“Sing, riding's a joy! For me I ride.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

Men and Women (1855), The last Ride together, vii.

“Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book III : The Other Half-Rome, line 88.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“When is man strong until he feels alone?”

Robert Browning Colombe's Birthday

Act III.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)

“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book X: The Pope, line 1185.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“In the great right of an excessive wrong.”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book III: The Other Half-Rome, line 1055.
Source: The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

"Apollo and the Fates", line 210 (1887).

“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 The Ring and the Book

Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 842.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one;
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Luria, Act v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Waring, ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Luria, Act v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.”

Robert Browning By the Fireside

By the Fireside, vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,—
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.”

Robert Browning Pippa Passes

Part II.
Pippa Passes (1841)