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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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