“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
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
FaithAll Quotes by Robert Browning
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Best“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“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“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Age“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Age“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
Love“God is the perfect poet.”
Poetry“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
Beauty“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
Love“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“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
Beauty“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
Strength“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothersday“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Music