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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

Robert Browning
Peace, War, Justice
Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.71

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

Robert Browning
Girl, Kissing, Universe
Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.389, Wildside Press LLC

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning
Music, Solitude, Inspirational Music
Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Robert Browning
Friendship, World, Ends
Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

Most progress is most failure.

Robert Browning
Failure, Progress
Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

What so wild as words are?

Robert Browning
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.274, Pearson Education

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning
Inspiring, Nature, Autumn
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.132, Wildside Press LLC

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

Robert Browning
Pain, Pretty Woman, Attractiveness
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.295, Wordsworth Editions

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

Robert Browning
Love, Way, Stoops
Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.338

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Robert Browning
Love, Giving, Talent

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Robert Browning
Love, Children, Men
'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 3, l. 88

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Robert Browning
Time, Men, Faults
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.445, Pearson Education

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

Robert Browning
Love You, Sunshine, Blessing

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

Robert Browning
Dream, Prayer, Memories
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning
Sympathy, Fall, Autumn
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning
Splendour
'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 59

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Robert Browning
Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning
Fall, Eye, Laughing
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Robert Browning
Trust, Time, Spring
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Robert Browning
Life, Dream, Insane
'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 479

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Robert Browning
Patience, Faults, Prove
Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.90

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Robert Browning
Truth, Truth Is, Fullness

All's love, yet all's law.

Robert Browning
Love, Law
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Robert Browning
Freedom, Deep Thought, Fetters
"My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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