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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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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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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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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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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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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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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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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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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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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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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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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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