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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.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote
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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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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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