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• 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 strai...
• What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Rabbi Ben Ezra
• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part i...
• Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -- Robert Browning
• God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides,--one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- One Word More, xvii...
• Thy Linking our England to his Italy.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 873...
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- In a Balcony...
• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,--no!
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part i...