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Quotes of Robert Browning British Humorist
Robert Browning Photo and Biography
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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. (defeat)
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! (catholicism)
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. (desire)
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. (emotions)
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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. (ignorance)
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. (curiosity)
So free we seem, so fettered we are! (freedom)
And gain is gain, however small. (gain)
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. (hope)
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! (lovers)
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. (love)
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. (inspiration)
Our aspirations are our possibilities. (possibilities)
My sun sets to rise again. (optimism)
Less is more. (possessions)
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. (uncertainty)
Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. (truth)
Truth never hurts the teller. (truth)
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true. (sincerity)
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. (autumn)
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. (ambition)
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. (ambition)
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, (courage)
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. (age and aging)
Grow old with me the best is yet to come. (age and aging)
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Browning, Robert
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