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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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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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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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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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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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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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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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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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