Robert Browning
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Collection: Made
No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.Collection: Motivational
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.Collection: Golf
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.Collection: Mind
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.Collection: Play
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.Collection: Afterlife
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!Collection: Love
What a thing friendship is - World without end.Collection: Friendship
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.Collection: Peace
Why stay on the earth except to grow.Collection: Learning
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.Collection: Gymnastics
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!Collection: Inspirational
Who knows most, doubts most.Collection: Doubt
Truth is truth howe'er it strike.Collection: Truth
Who knows but the world may end tonightCollection: Time
'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.Collection: Play
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!Collection: Pain
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanityCollection: Vanity
Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!Collection: Dream
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .Collection: Pain
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!Collection: Wise
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.Collection: Friendship
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.Collection: Stars
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.Collection: Beauty
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!Collection: Life
Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.Collection: Flower
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.Collection: Golf
Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!Collection: Love
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.Collection: People
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!Collection: Heart
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.Collection: Done
Shun death, is my advice.Collection: Death
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.Collection: Cousin
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.Collection: Song
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.Collection: Hope
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.Collection: Life
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.Collection: Feelings
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.Collection: Blue
Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?Collection: Hair
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.Collection: Book
We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.Collection: Littles
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.Collection: Book
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.Collection: Lying
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.Collection: Rocks
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirthCollection: Running
A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!Collection: Inspirational
The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!Collection: Devil