Quotes from Robert Browning

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

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.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Life is an empty dream.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

How good is life, the mere living!

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

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.

Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!