Quotes by Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Browning

English poet

Lived from: 1812 - 1889

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 may 1812 Died: 12 december 1889

  • A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
  • Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
  • Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
  • Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
  • The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
  • I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
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  • A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
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  • 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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  • A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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  • Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
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  • Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
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  • And gain is gain, however small.
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  • Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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  • But facts are facts and flinch not.
    The ring and the book
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  • Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
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  • Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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  • Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
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  • Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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  • Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
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  • I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
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  • I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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  • I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
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  • Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
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  • Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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  • It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
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  • Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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What are the most famous quotes from Robert Browning?

The two most famous quotes from Robert Browning are:

  • "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?"
  • "'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"

When did Robert Browning live?

Robert Browning was born in 1812 and died in the year 1889.