Robert Browning Quotes

When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something. - Robert Browning

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy. - Robert Browning

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

What's become of Waring / Since he gave us all the slip? - Robert Browning

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. - Robert Browning

What, you want, do you, to come unawares, / Sweeping the church up for first morning-prayers, / And find a poor devil has ended his cares / At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? / Do I carry the moon in my pocket? - Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. - Robert Browning

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? - Robert Browning

What most moved him was a certain meal on beans. - Robert Browning

What is he buzzing in my ears? / `Now that I come to die, / Do I view the world as a vale of tears?' / Ah, reverend sir, not I! - Robert Browning

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