Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
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~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote
The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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Named softly as the household name of one whom God had taken.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.
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And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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Until they are of the age to use the brain.
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.
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Two human loves make one divine.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
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Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true!
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
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Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
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For tis not in mere death that men die most.
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out, and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Light tomorrow with today.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
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True knowledge comes only through suffering.
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
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I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
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