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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
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Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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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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Books succeed and lives fail.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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 charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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