Robert Browning Quotes

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

When pain ends gain ends too.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

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.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.