Robert Browning Quotes

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

Robert Browning

God smiles as He has always smiled;
Ere suns and moons could wax and wane,
Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled
The Heavens, God thought on me His child;
Ordained a life for me, arrayed
Its circumstances, every one
To the minutest; ay, God said
This head this hand should rest upon
Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.

Robert Browning

And the pie with the long tongue That pricks deep into oak warts for a worm, And says a plain word when she finds her prize, But will not eat the ants.

Robert Browning

There's the palm-aphis, minute miracle. As wondrous every whit as thou or I.

Robert Browning

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

Robert Browning

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

Robert Browning