“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
Business
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
ArtAll Quotes by 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.”
Alone“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
Love“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Music“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
Beauty“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothersday“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Age“God is the perfect poet.”
Poetry“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.”
Age“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Age“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
Strength“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
Art“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Best“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art