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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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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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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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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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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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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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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