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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
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Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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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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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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