All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white, - we call it black

Quote by Robert Browning

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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God...

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so:...

Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage.

Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage.

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

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

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

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this...

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this...

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the...

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the...

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting...

I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting...

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

My sun sets to rise again.

My sun sets to rise again.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it,...

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it,...

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by...

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by...