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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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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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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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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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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
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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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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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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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