Quote

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.

Robert Browning

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Chess
Doubt
Called
Call
Diversified
Faith
Unbelief
White
Gained
Black
Board
Life
Boards

More quotes by Robert Browning

Image
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Robert Browning
Image
No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.
Robert Browning
Image
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
Robert Browning
Image
Faultless to a fault.
Robert Browning
Image
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
Image
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!
Robert Browning
Image
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
Robert Browning
Image
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
Robert Browning
Image
That's the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
Image
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.
Robert Browning
Image
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
Robert Browning
Image
Love is the energy of life.
Robert Browning
Image
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning
Image
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
Robert Browning
Image
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
Robert Browning
Image
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
Image
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
Robert Browning
Image
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
Robert Browning
Image
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Robert Browning
Image
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
Robert Browning