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“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

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

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

Robert Browning

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

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)

“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

Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)

“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”

Robert Browning

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

"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

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

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

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

“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