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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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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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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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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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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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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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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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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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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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Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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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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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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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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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
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