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I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness. — Robert Browning
All the world's loves in its unworldliness. — Robert Browning
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on. — Robert Browning
To try the soul's strength on. — Robert Browning
The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.
— William Browning Spencer
Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up ... — Robert Browning
You were not sure this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up ... — Robert Browning
Whatever's lost, it first was won.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.
— Emily Browning
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
White people can be so unself-conscious. It's offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.
— Barbara Browning
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together. — Robert Browning
And the loved one all together. — Robert Browning
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
— Robert Browning
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
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
— Robert Browning
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
When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
— Robert Browning
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
it's like I have two kinds of students now. Kids who write their homework and thought papers on their phones. Kids who just sound like they do.
— James Browning
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
— Robert Browning
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
— Robert Browning
Our business was done at the river's brink;
— Robert Browning
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
— Robert Browning
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
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
— Robert Browning
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
— Robert Browning
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
— Robert Browning
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
— Robert Browning
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
— Robert Browning
What if all's appearance? Is not outside seeming real as substance inside? Both are facts, so leave me dreaming.
— Robert Browning
When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday
— Robert Browning
Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!
— Robert Browning
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
— Robert Browning
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
— Robert Browning
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
— Robert Browning
This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning
...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
— Robert Browning
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too
what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? — Robert Browning
what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? — Robert Browning
What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning
Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. — Robert Browning
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. — Robert Browning
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth's crammed with Heaven.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
— Emily Browning
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.
— Robert Browning
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
— Robert Browning
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
---all's love, yet all's law.
— Robert Browning
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.
— Robert Browning
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
— Robert Browning
I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower. — Robert Browning
The buttercups, the little children's dower. — Robert Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.
— William Browning Spencer
The key to life is resilience ... We will always be knocked down. It's the getting up that counts.
— Dominique Browning
A man in armour is his armour's slave.
— Robert Browning
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
— Robert Browning
On ol' Halloween Night
These monsters join the living
If they had it their way
They'd stay until Thanksgiving — Casey Browning
These monsters join the living
If they had it their way
They'd stay until Thanksgiving — Casey Browning
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
— Robert Browning
A man's reach should exceed his grasp
— Robert Browning
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream
— Robert Browning
I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue. — Robert Browning
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue. — Robert Browning
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
— Robert Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
— Robert Browning
Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.
— Robert Browning
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
— Robert Browning
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.
— Michael Oakeshott
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
— Robert Browning
And trade is art, and art's philosophy,
In Paris. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In Paris. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.
— Emily Browning
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
— Carl Sandburg
A lion may die of an ass's kick.
— Robert Browning
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
— Robert Browning
Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.
— Robert Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning
Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
— Edward Dowden
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
— Robert Browning
I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
— Robert Browning
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
— Robert Browning
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
— Robert Browning
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning