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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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Durham
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Mrs. Browning
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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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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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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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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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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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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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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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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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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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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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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