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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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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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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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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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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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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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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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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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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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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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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