1. “Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.” – Robert Browning
2. “Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.” – Robert Browning
3. “Make us happy and you make us good.” – Robert Browning
4. “Shun death, is my advice.” – Robert Browning
5. “On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.” – Robert Browning
6. “Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you’ll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!” – Robert Browning
7. “Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.” – Robert Browning
8. “In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.” – Robert Browning
9. “Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.’” – Robert Browning
10. “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” – Robert Browning
11. “Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.” – Robert Browning
12. “Since there my past life lies, why alter it?” – Robert Browning
13. “I have lived, And seen God’s hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.” – Robert Browning
14. “If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.” – Robert Browning
15. “Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.” – Robert Browning
16. “The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
17. “Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.” – Robert Browning
18. “God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.” – Robert Browning
19. “Hold On. Hope Hard.” – Robert Browning
20. “All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!” – Robert Browning
21. “I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.” – Robert Browning
22. “I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.” – Robert Browning
23. “What so wild as words are?” – Robert Browning
24. “God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.” – Robert Browning
25. “When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.” – Robert Browning
26. “Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” – Robert Browning
27. “The great mind knows the power of gentleness.” – Robert Browning
28. “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.” – Robert Browning
29. “What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.” – Robert Browning
30. “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!” – Robert Browning
31. “God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.” – Robert Browning
32. “Love is the energy of life.” – Robert Browning
33. “My sun sets to rise again.” – Robert Browning
34. “At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.” – Robert Browning
35. “In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools – that’s vanity.” – Robert Browning
36. “When pain ends, gain ends too.” – Robert Browning
37. “Life is an empty dream.” – Robert Browning
38. “Who knows but the world may end tonight.” – Robert Browning
39. “Good to forgive, Best to forget.” – Robert Browning
40. “To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.” – Robert Browning
41. “Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.” – Robert Browning
42. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” – Robert Browning
43. “Other heights in other lives, God willing.” – Robert Browning
44. “All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.” – Robert Browning
45. “Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.” – Robert Browning
46. “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!” – Robert Browning
47. “Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.” – Robert Browning
48. “All poetry is difficult to read – The sense of it anyhow.” – Robert Browning
49. “Women hate a debt as men a gift.” – Robert Browning
50. “A minute of success pays for years of failure.” – Robert Browning
51. “Thought is the soul of act.” – Robert Browning
52. “This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.” – Robert Browning
53. “And gain is gain, however small.” – Robert Browning
54. “But there are times when patience proves at fault.” – Robert Browning
55. “A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.” – Robert Browning
56. “Truth never hurt the teller.” – Robert Browning
57. “Once more on my adventure brave and new.” – Robert Browning
58. “Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.” – Robert Browning
59. “He guides me and the bird. In His good time!” – Robert Browning
60. “Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.” – Robert Browning
61. “Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired, – been happy.” – Robert Browning
62. “There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.” – Robert Browning
63. “It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.” – Robert Browning
64. “I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!” – Robert Browning
65. “Smiling the boy fell dead.” – Robert Browning
66. “God is the perfect poet.” – Robert Browning
67. “A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.” – Robert Browning
68. “Be sure that God Ne’er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.” – Robert Browning
69. “Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” – Robert Browning
70. “Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.” – Robert Browning
71. “How good is life, the mere living!” – Robert Browning
72. “I think, am sure, a brother’s love exceeds All the world’s loves in its unworldliness.” – Robert Browning
73. “Silence ’tis awe decrees.” – Robert Browning
74. “If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.” – Robert Browning
75. “My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.” – Robert Browning
76. “How very hard it is to be a Christian!” – Robert Browning
77. “All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.” – Robert Browning
78. “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning
79. “It’s wiser being good than bad; It’s safer being meek than fierce: It’s fitter being sane than mad.” – Robert Browning
80. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
81. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.” – Robert Browning
82. “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!” – Robert Browning
83. “What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name’s sake.” – Robert Browning
84. “Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.” – Robert Browning
85. “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.” – Robert Browning
86. “But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; ’tis we musicians know.” – Robert Browning
87. “Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.” – Robert Browning
88. “Most progress is most failure.” – Robert Browning
89. “If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” – Robert Browning
90. “Why stay on the earth except to grow.” – Robert Browning
91. “One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.” – Robert Browning
92. “You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o’ercomes doubt.” – Robert Browning
93. “The world and life’s too big to pass for a dream.” – Robert Browning
94. “Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.” – Robert Browning
95. “Praise is deeper than the lips.” – Robert Browning
96. “Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.” – Robert Browning
97. “God is in his Heaven, all’s right with the world.” – Robert Browning
98. “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.” – Robert Browning
99. “Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?” – Robert Browning
100. “Faultless to a fault.” – Robert Browning
101. “My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.” – Robert Browning
102. “As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.” – Robert Browning
103. “A man in armor is his armor’s slave.” – Robert Browning
104. “Pippa’s Song The year’s at the spring The 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.” – Robert Browning
105. “Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.” – Robert Browning