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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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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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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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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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 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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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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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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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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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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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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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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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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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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