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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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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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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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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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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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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 work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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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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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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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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Books succeed and lives fail.
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