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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning
Work, Ambition, Comfort
'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Robert Browning
Adversity, Dizzy
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.322, Pearson Education

Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.

Robert Browning
Love, Sleep, Strive
'A Woman's Last Word' (1855) st. 1

Imperfection means perfection hid.

Robert Browning
Mean, Perfection, Imperfection
Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.349, Oxford University Press, USA

Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

Robert Browning
Responsibility, Aspiration

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Robert Browning
Time, Fall, Doe
Robert Browning, Augustine Birrell (1915). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.

Robert Browning
Forever, Losing, Lost
Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.86, tredition

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Robert Browning
Wise, Men, Fool
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.178, Pearson Education

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Robert Browning
Life, Men, White
'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1235

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

Robert Browning
Morning, England, April
'Home-Thoughts, from the Sea' (1845)

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

Robert Browning
Song, Play, Survival
Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.281

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

Robert Browning
Lakes, Nymphs, Swim
Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

Robert Browning
Acceptance, Men, Blame
"My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

Talent should minister to genius.

Robert Browning
Genius, Talent, Ministers
Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.97, Wildside Press LLC

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

Robert Browning
Peace, Age, Tonight
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

Robert Browning
Morning, Heaven, World
Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.180, Wordsworth Editions

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

Robert Browning
God, Art, Art Love
robert browning (1863). “poems”, p.122

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Robert Browning
Girl, Kissing, Romantic Love
Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning
Life, Heart, Men
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

Robert Browning
God, Stars, Soul
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Robert Browning
Joy, Riding
Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.90, Wildside Press LLC

Truth never hurt the teller.

Robert Browning
Hurt, Truth
'Fifine at the Fair' (1872) st. 32

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Robert Browning
Joy, Thank God, Desire

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Robert Browning
Strong, Incense, Catholicism
'The Bishop Orders his Tomb' (1845) l. 80

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning
Beauty, Attitude, Simple
'Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855) l. 217

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