100+ Robert Browning Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

source: - Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

Topics: Love, Life, Positive, Matters Of The Heart, My Heart Is Broken

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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

source: - Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

Topics: Love, Life, Friendship, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

Topics: Years, Pay, Minutes

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

source: - Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

Topics: Love, Anniversary, I Like You, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Speech

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Topics: Fall, Eye, Laughing

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

Topics: War, Wells

Love is the energy of life.

Topics: Love, Love Life, Love Is, Energy Of Life

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Topics: Golf, Three, Way, Three Ways

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Topics: Life, Giving, World

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

source: - 'La Saisiaz' (1878) prologue

Topics: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Topics: Soul, Earth

God is the perfect poet.

Topics: Godly, Perfect, Poetry

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Topics: Love, Valentines Day, Fall, Light Of Love, Perhaps Love

Graved inside of it, "Italy".

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Topics: Freedom

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Topics: Ambition, Comfort

Love is energy of life.

Topics: Love, Self Improvement, Energy, Energy Of Life

Truth never hurts the teller.

Topics: Hurt, Truth

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Topics: Lying, Heart, Brain

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Topics: Rome

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Topics: Beauty, Attitude, Simple, Simple Beauty, Eyes And Beauty

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Topics: Broken Heart, Perfect, Heaven

The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm;

Topics: Rain, Heart, Wind, Grate

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Topics: Gains, Want, Might

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Topics: Life, Fate, Trying

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Topics: Music, Solitude, Feels, Spiritual Music, Writing Music

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it â€˜Italy.'

Topics: Heart, My Heart

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

source: - Robert Browning (1899). “Poetical Works”

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Softball

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Topics: Inspiring, Nature, Autumn, Autumn Days

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Topics: Gymnastics, Break, Endeavor

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Topics: Courage, Fall, Sleep, Doubted

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

Topics: Light, Way, Splendor, Entry

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Topics: God, Perfect, Creation, Poetry By Famous Poets

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Topics: Love, Children, Men

My sun sets to rise again.

Topics: Sunrise, Sun, Sun Set, Dusk

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Is Yet To Come

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Topics: Love, Birthday, Anniversary, Marriage Speech, Marriage Toast

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

source: - Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1993). “The Brownings' correspondence: September 1849-January 1850 : letters 2813-2900”

Topics: True Love, Waiting, Forever

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Topics: Kissing, Romantic Love, Teenage Love, Just Kiss Me, Kissing And Love

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.

Topics: Evening

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

Topics: Life, Soul, Trying

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Topics: Splendour

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

source: - Robert Browning, Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke (1898). “Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau”

Topics: Mind, Great Minds, Gentleness

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Topics: Afterlife, Sun, Daylight, Sun Set

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

source: - Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

Topics: Being Yourself, Being Single, Acceptance, True To Myself

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Topics: Trust, Time, Spring, Summer To Fall, Utility

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Topics: Marriage, Persons, Findings, Inspirational Marriage, Finding The Right Person

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

Topics: Stars, Heaven, Bread

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Topics: Sweet, Reflection, Mad

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Topics: Art, Truth, Mouths, Artistic Process

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Topics: Men, Wings, Soul

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.

Topics: Hands, Spirit, Brows, Small Hands

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Topics: Joy, Riding

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Topics: Learning, Earth, Grows

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

Topics: Morning, England, April

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Topics: Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Crunch, Pied Piper

Look not down but up!

Topics: Inspirational, Looks

But facts are facts and flinch not.

Topics: Facts

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

Topics: Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Love Is

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

Topics: Country, Heart, Land

For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Topics: Might, Succeed, Comfort

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Topics: Men, Strive, Should

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Topics: Work

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.

Topics: Frustration, Men, Sight

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.

Topics: Mean, Fancy, Firsts

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Topics: Play, Two, World

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

Topics: Heaven, World, March Poems, Spring Inspirational, Spring Is Here

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Topics: May, Lions, Ass

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

Topics: Soul, Flesh, Helping

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Topics: Genius

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

Topics: Song, Play, Survival

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Topics: Wise, Earth, Reason, Acknowledgment

Are there not, dear Michael, 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.

Topics: Adventure, Two, Preparation

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Topics: Liberty, Littles

I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Topics: Dog, Pain, Cat

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

Topics: Men, Missing, Mind

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.

Topics: Wall, Believe, Light, Splendour, Mesh

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Topics: Firsts, Puppets, Lasts

If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

Topics: Relationship, Heart, Sunshine, Day Well Spent

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

Topics: Flower, Curiosity, Wickedness, Felicity

In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.

Topics: Believe, Lasts, Firsts

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Topics: Lying, Teaching, Rome, Perversity

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Topics: Lying, Past, Deceit, Past Life

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

Topics: Bird, Good Times, Guides, Guide Me, Sleet

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

Topics: Girl, Heart, Kissing

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Topics: Hair, Gold, Brushes

Thought is the soul of act.

Topics: Soul

Praise is deeper than the lips

Topics: Lips, Praise, Deeper

Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.

Topics: Heart, Home, Men

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

Topics: Sleep, Needs

God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

Topics: Stars, Children, Moon, Always Smile

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.

Topics: Snow, Long, World

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.

Topics: Fate, Fulfilled

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

Topics: Fate, Bears, Earth

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Topics: Wise, Men, Fool, Verdict

Talent should minister to genius.

Topics: Genius, Talent, Ministers

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Topics: Friendship, Heart, Eye, Good Friendship, Great Hearts

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

Topics: Mean, Doubt, Recognizing

Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.

Topics: Soul, Body, May

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.

Topics: Should, Breasts, Humans

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Topics: Truth, Truth Is, Strikes

Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

Topics: Responsibility, Aspiration

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Topics: Life, Dream, Insane

I do what many dream of, all their lives

Topics: Dream, Action

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Topics: Life, Dream, World, World And Life

Imperfection means perfection hid.

Topics: Mean, Perfection, Imperfection

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Topics: Adversity, Dizzy

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

Topics: Men, Cost, World

For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

Topics: Pain, Voice, Light

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Topics: Men, Armor, Slave

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

Topics: Pain, Women, Pretty Woman, Attractiveness, Tresses

Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

Topics: Children, Blow, Blood, Tubes

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.

Topics: Children, Gay, Littles, Buttercup

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

Topics: Lasts, Hours, Strikes

Make us happy and you make us good.

Topics: Happiness, Happy

The past is gained, secure, and on record.

Topics: Past, Records

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Topics: Design

What so wild as words are?

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Topics: Done, Innocence, Virtue

Shun death, is my advice.

Topics: Death, Advice

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

Topics: Bragging, Bluster, Brag

We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

Topics: Song, Done, Deeds, Prospering

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

Topics: Peaceful, Age, Tonight

For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

Topics: Heaven, Treasure, Matter

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Topics: Kindness, Lasts, Thieves

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Topics: Sea, Islands, Lilies, Isle

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Topics: Writing, Belief, Conviction

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

Topics: Book, People, Feelings

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.

Topics: Judging, People, Might

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

Topics: Nymphs, Lakes, Swim

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Topics: Mother, Men, Wife

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Topics: Atheism, Absurd, Wells

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

Topics: Christian, Atheism, Candid, Incline

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Topics: Pain, Gains, Ends

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Topics: Heart, Heaven, Earth, Heart Beat

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Topics: Ears, May, Musician

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Topics: Drinking, Liquor

I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

Topics: Song, Blow, Soul, Butchers

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Topics: Mean, Men, Youth, Love Vows, Subterfuge

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

Topics: Blue, Hatred, Heaven

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

Topics: Queens, Heart, Fortune

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

Topics: Heart, Next, Trouble

Who knows but the world may end tonight

Topics: Time, Tonight, World, Night Time

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Topics: Hope, Men, Distinctive

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Topics: Inspirational, Half, Youth

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

Topics: Eden, Apples, Adam And Eve

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.

Topics: Life, Sweet, Joy, Smack, Sun Set

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.

Topics: Life, Pain, Hero

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

Topics: Life, Brother, Thinking, Love My Brother, Cute Brother

Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.

Topics: Life, Together, Loved Ones

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

Topics: Life, Two, Soul, Two Souls

And gain is gain, however small.

Topics: Gains

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Topics: Mind, Desire

Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.

Topics: Baby, Dog, Cat, Inside Man, Kegs

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat â€” somewhat, too, the power â€” And thus we half-men struggle.

Topics: Struggle, Men, Half

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

Topics: Giving, Perfect, Soul, Thoughts And Feelings

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Topics: Faith, Doubt, Prove, Faith And Doubt

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

Topics: Sweet, Song, Names

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Topics: Atheist, Writing, Atheism

That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

Topics: Pain, Eye, Kissing, Three Times, Tresses

Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world

Topics: Song, Morning, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

Smiling the boy fell dead.

Topics: Boys

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,â€”been happy.

Topics: Stills

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Topics: Nature, Fool

'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

Topics: Spring, Angel, Heaven

Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

Topics: Flower, Rose, May

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Topics: Angel, Bird, Desire

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Topics: Effort, Haunting, Curse

What joy is better than news of friends?

Topics: Friendship, Joy, News

The best things in life can never be kept; They must be given away. A Smile, a Kiss, and Love If you are asking if I'd hurt you, the answer is never. If you are asking if i love u,the answer is forever. If you are asking if i want u,the answer is i do. If you are asking what i value most, the answer is YOU Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Topics: Girlfriend, Hurt, Kissing

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Topics: Ambition, Men, Doe, My Ambition

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

Topics: Motivational, Struggle, Fighting, Self Restraint, Fight Club Novel

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

Topics: Golf, Games, Clubs, Golf Clubs, Golf Game

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Topics: Flower, Believe, Kissing, Kissing Him, Petals

Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

Topics: Cousin, My Cousin

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Topics: Flower, Mad, Rose, Myrtle

Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

Topics: Flower, Rose, Bud

All service is the same with God.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Topics: Patience, Faults, Prove

Once more on my adventure brave and new.

Topics: Travel, Adventure, Brave

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Topics: Death, Mean, Dying

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Topics: Art, May, Likes

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Topics: Art, Truth, Way

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

Topics: Acceptance, Men, Blame

When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

Topics: Hate, Love Is, I Hate

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. 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!

Topics: Learning, Grieving, Sorrow, Inspirational Grief, Death Comfort

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Topics: Rocks, Water, Joy, Joy Of Living

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

Topics: Men, White, Evil

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Topics: Educational, Men, Educated, Educated Man

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth â€” Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Topics: Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

Topics: Age, Youth, Aging

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Topics: Art, Practice, Perfection, Things Learned

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Topics: Love, Giving, Talent

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

Topics: Horse, Boots, Saddles

And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!

Topics: Summer, Flower, June, Blackbirds

Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

Topics: Dream, Angel, Past

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Topics: Strong, Incense, Catholicism

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Topics: Heaven, Done, Earth

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Topics: Truth, Truth Is, Fullness

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