Robert Browning Quotes on Man (19 Quotes)

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

Thus man, who hath this quality, is best.

Progress is The law of life man is not Man as yet.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Love's so different with us men!

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

You think Priests just and holy men!

Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed So, I was afraid.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world hereshould he need the next, Let the world mind him This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.

I see the whole design,
I, who saw power, see now love perfect too:
Perfect I call Thy plan:
Thanks that I was a man!

Vows can't change nature, priests are only men, And love likes stratagem and subterfuge.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, One more devil's-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God

I hear you reproach, 'But delay was best, For their end was a crime.' Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view ...... Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Isthe unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, A spittle wiped off from the face of God

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say, not by his performance which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be, not are, nor will be.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.