A common grayness silvers everything.
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Source: Andrea del Sarto
Contributed by: Zaady
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
Source: A Death in the Desert. xxiii.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Source: Balaustion's Adventure.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!'
Source: Rabbi ben Ezra
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
Source: The Lost Leader. i.
This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
Source: Youth and Art. xvii.
Where my heart lies let may brain lie also.
Source: One More Word
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Source: Two in the Campagna. xii.
Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
Source: One Way of Love
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, - As, God be thanked! I do not.
Source: The Inn Album. iv.