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Robert Browning on Valentine's Day

1812–1889 England

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12 quotes

Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!

Never the Time and the Place (1883)

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

Men and Women (1855)

O world as God has made it! All is beauty.

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides,—one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!

One Word More (1855)

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!

Men and Women (1855)

Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!

The Ring and the Book (1868)

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!

O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

A Death in the Desert (1864)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.