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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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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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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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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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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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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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Light tomorrow with today!
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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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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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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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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
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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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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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