WIST Quotations

Browning, Robert -- “A Death in the Desert,” l. 586, Dramatis Personae (1864)

Dave — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:03:40 +0000

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
“A Death in the Desert,” l. 586, Dramatis Personae (1864)

Browning, Robert -- “Bishop Blougram’s Apology,” l. 693 (1855)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
“Bishop Blougram’s Apology,” l. 693 (1855)

Browning, Robert -- “Bishop Bougram’s Apology” (1855)

Dave — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:50:29 +0000

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:
Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
“Bishop Bougram’s Apology” (1855)

Browning, Robert -- “Pippa Passes”, pt. 1, l. 221 (1841)

Dave — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:34:56 +0000

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 is heaven —
All’s right with the world!

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
“Pippa Passes”, pt. 1, l. 221 (1841)

Browning, Robert -- “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” st. 7 (1842)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There’s a great text in Galatians,
Once you trip on it, entails
Twenty-nine distinct damnations,
One sure, if another fails.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” st. 7 (1842)

Browning, Robert -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:30:26 +0000

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
(Attributed)
(Source)

Cited in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908 ed.).

Browning, Robert -- Andrea del Sarto, l. 97 (1855)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
Andrea del Sarto, l. 97 (1855)

Browning, Robert -- Herakles

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

A man in armor is his armor’s slave.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
Herakles

Browning, Robert -- The Inn Album, ch. 5 (1875)

Dave — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:09:59 +0000

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
The Inn Album, ch. 5 (1875)

Browning, Robert -- Poem (1864), “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” st. 1, Dramatis Personæ

Dave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:56:10 +0000

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!”

Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
Poem (1864), “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” st. 1, Dramatis Personæ
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