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Robert Browning Quotes: 10

  • Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

  • Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  • Love is energy of life.

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

    Men and Women and Other Poems
  • how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  • A minute's success pays the failure of years.

  • Love is the energy of life.

  • Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  • 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.

  • 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; straightShe shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grateBlaze up and all the cottage warm;