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Robert Browning
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“Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver,-- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“God 's in his heaven: All 's right with the world.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,--not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,--not are, nor will be.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is--the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. . . . . . . . No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I 'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source