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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
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Durham
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Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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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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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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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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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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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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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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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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