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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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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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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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Books succeed and lives fail.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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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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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 wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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