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Books succeed and lives fail.
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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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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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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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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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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
