Quotes from Robert Browning

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. God stoops o'er his head, Satan looks up between his feet—both tug— He's left, himself, i' the middle: the soul wakes And grows. Prolong that battle through his life! Never leave growing till the life to come!

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

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

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.