Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. – Robert Browning
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. – Robert Browning
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. – Robert Browning
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. – Robert Browning
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
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? – Robert Browning
Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. – Robert Browning
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! – Robert Browning
God’s justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. – Robert Browning
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. – Robert Browning
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. – Robert Browning
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. – Robert Browning
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! – Robert Browning
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. – Robert Browning
