Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
Robert Browning
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Research
Science
Reason
Men
Taper
Inch
Inches
Exploration
Explore
More quotes by Robert Browning
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 mirth
Robert Browning
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
Robert Browning
Thought is the soul of act.
Robert Browning
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!
Robert Browning
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
Robert Browning
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
Robert Browning
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.
Robert Browning
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
Robert Browning
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Robert Browning
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
Robert Browning
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
Robert Browning
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
Robert Browning
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
Robert Browning
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning
Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'
Robert Browning
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
Robert Browning
Other heights in other lives, God willing.
Robert Browning
