Quotes from Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

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!

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.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.