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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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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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In your patience ye are strong.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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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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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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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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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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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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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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