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“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)

“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"A Toccata of Galuppi's", line 42.
Men and Women (1855)

“Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you,
And did you speak to him again?
How strange it seems, and new!”

Robert Browning Memorabilia

Memorabilia, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.”

Robert Browning

Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xiii.

“The sin I impute to each frustrute ghost
Is—the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin,
Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.”

Robert Browning

The Statue and the Bust.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”

Robert Browning

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

“Jove strikes the Titans down
Not when they set about their mountain-piling
But when another rock would crown the work.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)

“What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets:
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.”

Robert Browning

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.”

Robert Browning

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“Say not "a small event!" Why "small"?
Costs it more pain that this ye call
A "great event" should come to pass
From that? Untwine me from the mass
Of deeds which make up life, one deed
Power shall fall short in or exceed!”

Robert Browning Pippa Passes

Introduction.
Pippa Passes (1841)

“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”

Robert Browning

The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!”

Robert Browning

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“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

"Now", line 12 (1889).

“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”

Robert Browning By the Fireside

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

“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”

Robert Browning Cleon

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

“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)

“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

Sometimes ascribed to Robert Browning, this is in fact a misquotation from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): "They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top".
Misattributed

“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”

Robert Browning

La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 175.