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