Robert Browning
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.Collection: Life
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.Collection: Night
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.Collection: Marriage
A minute of success pays for years of failure.Collection: Years
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.Collection: Mind
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!Collection: Learning
Good to forgive, Best to forget.Collection: Forgiveness
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.Collection: True Love
Truth never hurts the teller.Collection: Wisdom
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.Collection: Believe
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to painCollection: Pain
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.Collection: Relationship
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.Collection: Being Yourself
The world and life's too big to pass for a dreamCollection: Life
Love is the energy of life.Collection: Love
Look not down but up!Collection: Inspirational
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!Collection: Time
Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.Collection: Love You
God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.Collection: Spring
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.Collection: Mean
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.Collection: Dream
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.Collection: Truth
All's love, yet all's law.Collection: Love
I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.Collection: Men
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!Collection: Freedom
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.Collection: God
When is man strong until he feels alone?Collection: Birthday
Never brag, never bluster, never blush.Collection: Bragging
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.Collection: Nature
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.Collection: Light
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.Collection: Love
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.Collection: Art
Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!Collection: Love
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.Collection: Mother
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.Collection: Goodbye
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.Collection: Love
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.Collection: Death
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.Collection: Evil
This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.Collection: Forever
Imperfection means perfection hid.Collection: Mean
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.Collection: Giving