Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Source: Andrea del Sarto
Contributed by: Zaady
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
Source: Paracelsus. Part i.
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
Source: Paracelsus
God's in his heaven: All's right with the world.
Source: Pippa Passes. Part i. (excerpt)
Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
Source: The Ring and the Book. Pompilia. Line 357.
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
Source: Pippa Passes
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
Source: Paracelsus. Part iv.
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
Source: Luria. Act. v.
When the fight begins within himself, A man 's worth something.
Source: Men and Women. Bishop Blougram's Apology.