Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

Quotes



All's love, yet all's law.
'Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays