Robert Browning Quotes

‘Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

A man in armor is his armor’s slave.

Providence cares for every hungry mouth.

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp Or what’s a heaven for?

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white, we call it black.

‘Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture.

Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be – leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse like bride.

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp – or what’s a heaven for?