Facts about Robert Browning 
Summary
Robert Browning was a famous Poet from England, who lived between May 7, 1812 and December 12, 1889. He became 77 years old.
Biography
He was best known for his collection Dramatic Lyrics and The Ring and the Book. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Robert, under the main topics: Love, Mom, Poetry.
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Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning
Famous quotes by Robert Browning (31)
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top"
"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents"
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time"
"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God"
"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on"
"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!"
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be"
"God is the perfect poet"
"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again"
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay"
"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do"
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
"A minute's success pays the failure of years"
"Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"
"The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
"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"
"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee"
"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked"
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake"
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round"
"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
"Oh, to be in England now that April's there"
"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"
"My sun sets to rise again"
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