Robert Browning Quotes
1812 – 1889
English poet and playwright, known for his dramatic monologues.
21 quotesAbout Robert Browning on Wikipedia
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?”
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? / Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
“I find earth not gray but rosy; / Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”
“Inscribe all human effort with one word, / Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
“When the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.”
“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, / Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed”
