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“You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 224.
Men and Women (1855)

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”

Robert Browning

"Saul", xviii.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”

Robert Browning

The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Fool! All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure:
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be:
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.”

Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra

Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 157.

“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

Robert Browning

"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).

“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 2.
Paracelsus (1835)

“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”

Robert Browning

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

“Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”

Robert Browning

Childe Roland to the dark Tower came, xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Wanting is—what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?”

Robert Browning

Wanting—is what?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Truth is within ourselves.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

“What's come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”

Robert Browning

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

“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"A Grammarian's Funeral".
Men and Women (1855)

“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”

Robert Browning Colombe's Birthday

Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)

“The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!”

Robert Browning

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.”

Robert Browning Cleon

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

“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”

Robert Browning

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

“But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.”

Robert Browning

Why I am a Liberal.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“[…]his back is fairly turned?
The pair of goodly palaces are burned,
The gardens ravaged, and your Guelf is drunk
A week with joy; the next, his laughter sunk
In sobs of blood, for he found, some strange way,
Old Salinguerra back again; I say
Old Salinguerra in the town once more
Uprooting, overturning, flame before
Blood fetlock-high beneath him; Azzo fled;
Who scaped the carnage followed; then the dead
Were pushed aside from Salinguerra's throne.
He ruled once more Ferrara, all alone.
Till Azzo, stunned awhile, revived, would pounce;
Coupled with Boniface, like lynx and ounce.”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the First
Sordello (1840)