Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Robert Browning More Quotes by Robert Browning More Quotes From Robert Browning Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell! Robert Browning justice might love Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to. Robert Browning saying-goodbye love-is goodbye Thought is the soul of act. Robert Browning soul Our aspirations are our responsibilities. Robert Browning aspiration responsibility At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now. Robert Browning insane dream life I do what many dream of, all their lives Robert Browning dream action Praise is deeper than the lips Robert Browning lips deeper praise For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. Robert Browning ignorance love knowledge Silence 'tis awe decrees. Robert Browning decree awe silence Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth Robert Browning autumn running morning The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way! Robert Browning fiddle devil way Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. Robert Browning generations three tree All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black. Robert Browning black white life God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. Robert Browning track god justice Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. Robert Browning height shade mind Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. Robert Browning stoops love way O world, as God has made it! All is beauty. Robert Browning made beauty world Death: the grand perhaps. Robert Browning The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow! Robert Browning faults time men Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? Robert Browning used gold hair
