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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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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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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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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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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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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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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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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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