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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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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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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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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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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
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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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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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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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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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