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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Inspirational Quotes (143)

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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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.'
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
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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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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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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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OF writing many books there is no end And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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