Frases de Robert Browning

Fuente: El amigo de todos: 4,850 pensamientos clasificados y 700 refranes explicados. Compilado por Victor Quintanilla Young, Vilma Elvira C. de Quintanilla.

Fuente: Cabestrero Rodríguez, Teófilo. Jesús, el hombre que ama como Dios. Editorial Desclée De Brouwer, 2015. ISBN 9788433037282. https://books.google.es/books?id=4svyDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&dq=Ama+un+solo+d%C3%ADa+y+el+mundo+habr%C3%A1+cambiado&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibqpqElK_gAhWOlhQKHYS4AAUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=Ama%20un%20solo%20d%C3%ADa%20y%20el%20mundo%20habr%C3%A1%20cambiado&f=false

Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 154.

Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 37.

Fuente: Hernández Bitor, Miguel Ángel. Confesiones desde el otro lado. Editorial Visión Libros, 2006. ISBN 9788498213935. p. 7. https://books.google.es/books?id=IPo6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=La+culpa+la+tiene+s%C3%B3lo+el+tiempo.+Todos+los+hombres+se+tornan+buenos,+pero+%C2%A1tan+despacio!&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitzvHdma_gAhUS1uAKHRc5C2EQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=La%20culpa%20la%20tiene%20s%C3%B3lo%20el%20tiempo.%20Todos%20los%20hombres%20se%20tornan%20buenos%2C%20pero%20%C2%A1tan%20despacio!&f=false

Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.

Fuente: Vallvey, Ángela. El arte de amar la vida. Kailas Editorial, 2015. ISBN 9788416023776 https://books.google.es/books?id=9OedCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=Yo+sostengo+que+un+hombre+ha+de+luchar+hasta+el+final,+por+el+precio+en+que+ha+fijado+su+vida&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5187Znq_gAhUIWxoKHRy7DNUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Yo%20sostengo%20que%20un%20hombre%20ha%20de%20luchar%20hasta%20el%20final%2C%20por%20el%20precio%20en%20que%20ha%20fijado%20su%20vida&f=false

Fuente: Mackay, Alan L. Diccionario de citas científicas: la cosecha de una mirada serena. Volumen 1 de Proyecto Didáctico Quirón, Ciencias, Tecnología y Sociedad. Ediciones de la Torre, 1992. ISBN 9788479600242. p. 71. https://books.google.es/books?id=PvcAulSTG8gC&pg=PA71&dq=La+ignorancia+no+es+tal,+sino+pecado.+Robert+Browning&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi57_Chmq_gAhWy1uAKHcMmBPIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20ignorancia%20no%20es%20tal%2C%20sino%20pecado.%20Robert%20Browning&f=false

Fuente: Torres, Gabriela. Aprendiendo a vivir libre: O aprendiendo a no depender. Editorial Palibrio, 2012. ISBN 9781463320119. p. 27. https://books.google.es/books?id=jIoToGRFyWkC&pg=PA27&dq=Las+cadenas+que+m%C3%A1s+nos+oprimen+son+las+que+menos+pesan.+Robert+Browning&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm4LXNm6_gAhWvDmMBHfBxDWYQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Las%20cadenas%20que%20m%C3%A1s%20nos%20oprimen%20son%20las%20que%20menos%20pesan.%20Robert%20Browning&f=false

Fuente: Hinojosa Canedo, Benjamín. Quienes somos: quién es quién en Bolivia. Editorial Secretaría Nacional de Cultura, 1999. p. 16.

"A Grammarian's Funeral", line 115.
Men and Women (1855)
Contexto: 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 hundred's soon hit;
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
That has the world here—should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find him.

Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
Fuente: The complete poetical works of Browning

Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 121.
Contexto: Be there, for once and all,
Severed great minds from small,
Announced to each his station in the Past!
Was I, the world arraigned,
Were they, my soul disdained,
Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last!
Now, who shall arbitrate?
Ten men love what I hate,
Shun what I follow, slight what I receive;
Ten, who in ears and eyes
Match me: we all surmise,
They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?

Book the Sixth
Sordello (1840)

Not Browning, but a misquotation from Pearl Buck's China, Past and Present: "Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked".
Misattributed

House, x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)

Dedication to La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Valence of Prince Berthold, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
Contexto: p>He gathers earth's whole good into his arms;
Standing, as man now, stately, strong and wise,
Marching to fortune, not surprised by her.
One great aim, like a guiding-star, above—
Which tasks strength, wisdom, stateliness, to lift
His manhood to the height that takes the prize;
A prize not near — lest overlooking earth
He rashly spring to seize it — nor remote,
So that he rest upon his path content:
But day by day, while shimmering grows shine,
And the faint circlet prophesies the orb,
He sees so much as, just evolving these,
The stateliness, the wisdom and the strength,
To due completion, will suffice this life,
And lead him at his grandest to the grave.
After this star, out of a night he springs;
A beggar's cradle for the throne of thrones
He quits; so, mounting, feels each step he mounts,
Nor, as from each to each exultingly
He passes, overleaps one grade of joy.
This, for his own good: — with the world, each gift
Of God and man, — reality, tradition,
Fancy and fact — so well environ him,
That as a mystic panoply they serve —
Of force, untenanted, to awe mankind,
And work his purpose out with half the world,
While he, their master, dexterously slipt
From such encumbrance, is meantime employed
With his own prowess on the other half.
Thus shall he prosper, every day's success
Adding, to what is he, a solid strength —
An aery might to what encircles him,
Till at the last, so life's routine lends help,
That as the Emperor only breathes and moves,
His shadow shall be watched, his step or stalk
Become a comfort or a portent, how
He trails his ermine take significance, —
Till even his power shall cease to be most power,
And men shall dread his weakness more, nor dare
Peril their earth its bravest, first and best,
Its typified invincibility.Thus shall he go on, greatening, till he ends—
The man of men, the spirit of all flesh,
The fiery centre of an earthly world!</p

Book the First
Sordello (1840)
Contexto: But, gathering in its ancient market-place,
Talked group with restless group; and not a face
But wrath made livid, for among them were
Death's staunch purveyors, such as have in care
To feast him. Fear had long since taken root
In every breast, and now these crushed its fruit,
The ripe hate, like a wine: to note the way
It worked while each grew drunk! men grave and grey
Stood, with shut eyelids, rocking to and fro.
Letting the silent luxury trickle slow
About the hollows where a heart should be;
But the young gulped with a delirious glee
Some foretaste of their first debauch in blood
At the fierce news

Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 121.
Contexto: Be there, for once and all,
Severed great minds from small,
Announced to each his station in the Past!
Was I, the world arraigned,
Were they, my soul disdained,
Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last!
Now, who shall arbitrate?
Ten men love what I hate,
Shun what I follow, slight what I receive;
Ten, who in ears and eyes
Match me: we all surmise,
They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?

"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Contexto: I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.

Part I, line 221.
Pippa Passes (1841)

Book IX : Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatus.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Contexto: Forgive me this digression — that I stand
Entranced awhile at Law's first beam, outbreak
O' the business, when the Count's good angel bade
"Put up thy sword, born enemy to the ear,
"And let Law listen to thy difference!"
And Law does listen and compose the strife,
Settle the suit, how wisely and how well!
On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault,
Law bends a brow maternally severe,
Implies the worth of perfect chastity,
By fancying the flaw she cannot find.

Valence of Prince Berthold, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
Contexto: p>He gathers earth's whole good into his arms;
Standing, as man now, stately, strong and wise,
Marching to fortune, not surprised by her.
One great aim, like a guiding-star, above—
Which tasks strength, wisdom, stateliness, to lift
His manhood to the height that takes the prize;
A prize not near — lest overlooking earth
He rashly spring to seize it — nor remote,
So that he rest upon his path content:
But day by day, while shimmering grows shine,
And the faint circlet prophesies the orb,
He sees so much as, just evolving these,
The stateliness, the wisdom and the strength,
To due completion, will suffice this life,
And lead him at his grandest to the grave.
After this star, out of a night he springs;
A beggar's cradle for the throne of thrones
He quits; so, mounting, feels each step he mounts,
Nor, as from each to each exultingly
He passes, overleaps one grade of joy.
This, for his own good: — with the world, each gift
Of God and man, — reality, tradition,
Fancy and fact — so well environ him,
That as a mystic panoply they serve —
Of force, untenanted, to awe mankind,
And work his purpose out with half the world,
While he, their master, dexterously slipt
From such encumbrance, is meantime employed
With his own prowess on the other half.
Thus shall he prosper, every day's success
Adding, to what is he, a solid strength —
An aery might to what encircles him,
Till at the last, so life's routine lends help,
That as the Emperor only breathes and moves,
His shadow shall be watched, his step or stalk
Become a comfort or a portent, how
He trails his ermine take significance, —
Till even his power shall cease to be most power,
And men shall dread his weakness more, nor dare
Peril their earth its bravest, first and best,
Its typified invincibility.Thus shall he go on, greatening, till he ends—
The man of men, the spirit of all flesh,
The fiery centre of an earthly world!</p

Book I : The Ring and the Book.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Contexto: Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore:
Prime nature with an added artistry —
No carat lost, and you have gained a ring.
What of it? 'T is a figure, a symbol, say;
A thing's sign: now for the thing signified.

Book I : The Ring and the Book.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 187.
Contexto: So, take, and use thy work:
Amend what flaws may lurk,
What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim!
My times be in thy hand!
Perfect the cup as planned!
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!

Book the Second
Sordello (1840)

Book XI, line 1560.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

Valence of Prince Berthold, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
Contexto: p>He gathers earth's whole good into his arms;
Standing, as man now, stately, strong and wise,
Marching to fortune, not surprised by her.
One great aim, like a guiding-star, above—
Which tasks strength, wisdom, stateliness, to lift
His manhood to the height that takes the prize;
A prize not near — lest overlooking earth
He rashly spring to seize it — nor remote,
So that he rest upon his path content:
But day by day, while shimmering grows shine,
And the faint circlet prophesies the orb,
He sees so much as, just evolving these,
The stateliness, the wisdom and the strength,
To due completion, will suffice this life,
And lead him at his grandest to the grave.
After this star, out of a night he springs;
A beggar's cradle for the throne of thrones
He quits; so, mounting, feels each step he mounts,
Nor, as from each to each exultingly
He passes, overleaps one grade of joy.
This, for his own good: — with the world, each gift
Of God and man, — reality, tradition,
Fancy and fact — so well environ him,
That as a mystic panoply they serve —
Of force, untenanted, to awe mankind,
And work his purpose out with half the world,
While he, their master, dexterously slipt
From such encumbrance, is meantime employed
With his own prowess on the other half.
Thus shall he prosper, every day's success
Adding, to what is he, a solid strength —
An aery might to what encircles him,
Till at the last, so life's routine lends help,
That as the Emperor only breathes and moves,
His shadow shall be watched, his step or stalk
Become a comfort or a portent, how
He trails his ermine take significance, —
Till even his power shall cease to be most power,
And men shall dread his weakness more, nor dare
Peril their earth its bravest, first and best,
Its typified invincibility.Thus shall he go on, greatening, till he ends—
The man of men, the spirit of all flesh,
The fiery centre of an earthly world!</p

Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 142.
Contexto: All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount:
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", line 1.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

Book X : The Pope.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Contexto: What wonder if the novel claim had clashed
With old requirement, seemed to supersede
Too much the customary law? But, brave,
Thou at first prompting of what I call God,
And fools call Nature, didst hear, comprehend,
Accept the obligation laid on thee,
Mother elect, to save the unborn child,
As brute and bird do, reptile and the fly,
Ay and, I nothing doubt, even tree, shrub, plant
And flower o' the field, all in a common pact
To worthily defend the trust of trusts,
Life from the Ever Living: — didst resist —
Anticipate the office that is mine —
And with his own sword stay the upraised arm,
The endeavour of the wicked, and defend
Him who, — again in my default, — was there
For visible providence: one less true than thou
To touch, i' the past, less practised in the right,
Approved less far in all docility
To all instruction, — how had such an one
Made scruple "Is this motion a decree?"