Quotes from Robert Browning

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

Who knows but the world may end tonight

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Love is the energy of life.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.