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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Inspirational Quotes (143)

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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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