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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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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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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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