Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning More Quotes by Robert Browning More Quotes From Robert Browning 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. Robert Browning succeed comfort might I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize. Robert Browning strive should men 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. Robert Browning sunshine heart relationship Faultless to a fault. Robert Browning faults perfection How good is life, the mere living! Robert Browning mere live-life life All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. Robert Browning puppets lasts god Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once! Robert Browning giants race god No work begun shall ever pause for death. Robert Browning pauses work Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage. Robert Browning aging youth age That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. Robert Browning small-hands spirit hands What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. Robert Browning practice perfection art Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride. Robert Browning riding joy Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work? Robert Browning talent love giving Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?. Robert Browning hatred blue heaven 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? Robert Browning done time heaven Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! Robert Browning milton inspiration watches This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever. Robert Browning losing forever lost What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. Robert Browning learning work men In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity Robert Browning vanity earth heaven 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. Robert Browning may life mean
