Robert Browning Quotes (page 2)

1812–1889, British Poet · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!”
Catholicism
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“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”
Emotions
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“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.”
Sincerity
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“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”
Ambition
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“There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s!”
Education
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“Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.”
Curiosity
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“The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
Uncertainty
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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.”
Age and Aging
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“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”
Writers and Writing
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“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”
Joy
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“Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.”
Truth
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