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Robert Browning

Robert Browning; Revisited Through His Quotes

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Robert Browning was famous for his dramatic monologues. A lover of poetry and natural history, Robert Browning owned a library of more than 6000 volumes of books in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Italian, French, and Spanish. Robert Browning married Elizabeth Barrett who was a renowned poet. After his famous work, "The Ring and the Book" was published, Robert Browning earned tremendous success and fame.

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

  • If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  • So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

  • There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.

  • A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  • You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

  • Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  • To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  • Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

  • Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  • I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

  • When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

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