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“Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas,
Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno,
Wrote one song—and in my brain I sing it;
Drew one angel—borne, see, on my bosom!”

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

Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)

“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”

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

Stanza ii.
One Word More (1855)

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

"The Flight of the Duchess", line 881.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

“Oh child that didst despise thy life so much
When it seemed only thine to keep or lose,
How the fine ear felt fall the first low word
"Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

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

“A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book I : The Ring and the Book.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”

Robert Browning A Blot in the 'Scutcheon

Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843), Act i, scene iii.

“They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.”

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

Old Pictures in Florence, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God,—the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures.
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward,—Nature's good
And God's.”

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

A Soul's Tragedy (1846), Act. i.

“We shall march prospering,—not thro' his presence;
Songs may inspirit us,—not from his lyre;
Deeds will be done,—while he boasts his quiescence,
Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.”

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

The lost Leader, ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact
Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard,
And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since.
Give it me back! The thing's restorative
I'the touch and sight.”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book I : The Ring and the Book.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.”

Robert Browning By the Fireside

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

“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 2, line 112.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

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

“The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”

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

“But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.”

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

“The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!”

Robert Browning Pippa Passes

Part I, line 221.
Source: Pippa Passes (1841)

“What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.”

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

"Jochanan Hakkadosh" (1883).
Source: Jocoseria

“Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her”

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

“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Source: The Poems of Robert Browning

“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"De Gustibus", ii.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
"Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'"