Robert Browning: Trending quotes (page 7)

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

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

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

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

“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”

“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —
And thus we half-men struggle.”

“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”

“What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth —
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”

“God is the perfect poet.”

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”

“When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.”

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;…. and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”

“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”

“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”

“Love is energy of life.”

“We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!”

“Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"”