Robert Browning Short Quotes

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Where my heart lies, let my brain lie also.

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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

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Just an experiment first, for candor's sake.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.

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Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles.

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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

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What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.

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A secret's safe
'Twixt you, me, and the gatepost!

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Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage.

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I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.

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Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world.

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What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.

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Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
By famous Hanover city.

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Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.

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Born, bred, with just one instinct - that of growth:

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Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.

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

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Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

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That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.

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The best way to escape His ire Is, not to seem too happy.

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So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts The teller.

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I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

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The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.

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The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

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Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you.

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Truth that peeps
Over the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

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Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

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I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.

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