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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Inspirational Quotes (143)

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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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Books succeed and lives fail.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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