“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith
“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.”
AloneAll Quotes by Robert Browning
“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Music“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“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.”
Business“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothersday“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
Love“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
Strength“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“God is the perfect poet.”
Poetry“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Best“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
Beauty“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Age“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“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“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“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
Business