Robert Browning Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”

“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.”

“No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.”

“God is the perfect poet.”

“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

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

“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!”

“Faultless to a fault.”

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”