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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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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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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.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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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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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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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.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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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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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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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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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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