Robert Browning

"Love me and leave me not, Thy way is dark and long."

"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."

"Your business is not to catch tops, but to make them first."

"I have immortal longings in me."

"A man can have but one life and one death, one heaven, one hell."

"The man who lives for himself is a failure; even if he should gain much money, he is a failure."

"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind."

"Help and not hindrance; to breed not fear."

"There may be heaven; there must be hell. Meantime, there is our earth here."

"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me."

"The lover loves in longing with half-shut eyes."

"Time is it that we should go about our business."

"Patience is a virtue cultivated by the wise."

"Get the glory of going on, and still kick on."

"None of them knew they were going to die."

"The unlit lamp and the ungirt loin!"

"Oh, the little more, and how much it is; And the little less, and what worlds away!"

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall."

"Smiling with a high heart's high sigh; and to keep my countenance."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"When all the world dissolves, and every creature shall be purified."

"Sing, riding's a joy! For me, I ride."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"Life means intense activity of some kind."

"I am myself alone."

"Truth is within ourselves."

"Let me live out my years in heat, not cold."

"The good of the whole is the highest law."

"I sing the body electric."