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.“
• "What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.“
• "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.“
• "Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?“
• "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.“
• "It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.“
• "Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.“
• "If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.“
• "I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.“
• "Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.“
• "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.“
• "Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.“
• "White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.“
• "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.“
• "A minute's success pays the failure of years.“
• "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.“
• "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.“
• "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.“
• "Take away love and our earth is a tomb.“
• "So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.“
• "Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.“
• "God is the perfect poet.“
• "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.“
• "I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.“
• "The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.“
• "A minute's success pays the failure of years.“
• "Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.“
• "I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.“
• "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.“
• "So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.“

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