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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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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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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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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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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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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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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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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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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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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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