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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.
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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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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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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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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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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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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