Robert Browning Quotes about Failure

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Most progress is most failure.

Robert Browning

Failure, Progress

Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning

Life, Sweet, Failure

Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Robert Browning

Stars, Failure, Men

'Popularity' (1855) st. 1