Quotes by Robert Browning

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”

“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew”

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”

“Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!”

“God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!”

“Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod,One more devil's triumph and sorrow for angels,One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!”

“Any noseMay ravage with impunity a rose.”

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."”

“When pain ends gain ends too.”

“Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?”

“Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?”

“So free we seem so fettered fast we are!”

“When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.”

“I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.”

“When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.”

“I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.”

“Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.”

“T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!”