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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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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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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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OF writing many books there is no end And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
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