Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

Quotes

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On Courtesy:

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

On Love:

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

A Death in the Desert

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

The Flight of the Duchess

On Star:

Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.

Waring

On Success:

A minute's success pays the failure for years.

Apollo and the Fates

On Soul:

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Rabbi Ben Ezra

On Ambition:

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

Rabbi Ben Ezra

On Friendship:

What a thing friendship is
World without end.

On Lose:

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came

On World:

Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world.

Two in the Campagna
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