If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. Robert Browning More Quotes by Robert Browning More Quotes From Robert Browning 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. Robert Browning rocksjoywater Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning progresshopemen All service is the same with God. Robert Browning Never the time and the place Robert Browning togetherlovelife I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds Robert Browning brotherlifethinking I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know. Robert Browning gainswantmight 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. Robert Browning lakesrainheart Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. Robert Browning passionpainheart Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. Robert Browning povertylittlesworld Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. Robert Browning succeedfailurelows A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Robert Browning agedreambirthday You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. Robert Browning romantic-lovekissinggirl That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning wisesongthinking How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning heartmenlife Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning progresshopemen Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? Robert Browning deeds-donesuccessmen But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? Robert Browning lifelyingpast What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. Robert Browning timemenyears What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? Robert Browning wedding-anniversaryfoundart Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her Robert Browning nexttroubleheart
