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Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — Robert Browning

1812–1889 England

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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.

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

Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

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

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

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

But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?

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

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

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

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

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

There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.

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

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

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

And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.

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

Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.

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

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

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

Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.

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

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.

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

What's come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

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

They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.

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

But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.

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

The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

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

That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.

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

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,—
As, God be thanked! I do not.

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

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.

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

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