Quote #31
I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
More from Robert Browning
- You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
- What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
- If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
- Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
- Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
- Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist.
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- 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 whol…