Robert Browning Quotes

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

Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,—
As, God be thanked! I do not.

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Our business was done at the river's brink;

My whole life long I learn'd to love,
This hour my utmost art I prove.
And speak my passion — — heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!

It's wiser being good than bad;
It's safer being meek than fierce;
It's fitter being sane than mad.
My own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
That after Last returns the First,
Though a wide compass round be fetched;
That what began best can't end worst,
Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also

Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.

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

And what proportion love should hold with power
In his right constitution: love preceding
Power — with much power always much more love;

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

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

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart— When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared them of the glory — to drop down, To toil for man, to suffer or to die, — This is the same voice: can thy soul know change? Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!