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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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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
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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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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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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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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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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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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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