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Robert Browning

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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

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Quotes from Robert Browning

Love is energy of life.

—Robert Browning

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

—Robert Browning

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

—Robert Browning

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?

—Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

—Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

—Robert Browning

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

—Robert Browning