Robert Browning Hamilton Quotes
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Measure, Mind)
"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Fight, Man, Worth)
"Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Infinite, Pain, Passion)
"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Love)
"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Strength, Land, Sea)
"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Art, God, Day, Earth, Heaven)
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Man, Temptation)
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Faith, Love, Fear, Character, Hope, Humanity)
"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Man)
"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: God, Succeed)
"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Art, Truth, Glory)
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Ignorance, Innocence, Sin)
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Heaven, Man)
"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Sympathy, Autumn)
"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Life, Lies, Past)
"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: God, Soul, Earth)
"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Rome)
"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: God, Justice)
"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: Age, Death, Dream, Youth)
"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."
- Robert Browning Hamilton
(Related: June, Now)