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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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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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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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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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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