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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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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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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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