1812-1889, British Poet
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning – [Ambition]
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Robert Browning – [Goals]
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning – [Success]
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning – [Ambition]
Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.
Robert Browning – [Ambition]
And gain is gain, however small.
Robert Browning – [Gain]
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning – [Autumn]
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
Robert Browning – [Missionaries]
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
Robert Browning – [Catholicism]
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning – [Age and Aging]
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
Robert Browning – [Age and Aging]
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning – [Life and Living]
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning – [Defeat]
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Robert Browning – [Ignorance]
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Robert Browning – [Effort]
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
Robert Browning – [Sincerity]
Less is more.
Robert Browning – [Possessions]
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning – [Hope]
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning – [Optimism]
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning – [Lovers]