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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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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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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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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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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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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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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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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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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