Robert Browning1812–1889He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.Luria (1846), Act IIOnly I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.Paracelsus (1835), Part 1.- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Pippa Passes (1841), Part IV.
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Cleon.
- The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
- The Ring and the Book (1868-69), Book X, line 1185
- “A Death in the Desert”, Dramatis Personae (1864), line 586
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.“At the ‘Mermaid’” (1876)- Andrea del Sarto (1855), Men and Women (1855), “Andrea del Sarto”In context
- Rabbi ben Ezra (1864)In context
