Robert Browning - Heaven Quotes

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

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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.

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Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!

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For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

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Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

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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?

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I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.

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A man can have but one life and one death,
One heaven, one hell.

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The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in his heaven—
All's right with the world!

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When earth breaks up and heaven expands,
How will the change strike me and you
In the house not made with hands?

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The instant made eternity—
And heaven just prove that I and she Ride, ride together, forever ride?

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He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's success Found, or earth's failure.

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There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

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The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

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

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Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

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'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.

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Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?
But I need, now as then,
Thee, God, who mouldest men.

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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

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In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.

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