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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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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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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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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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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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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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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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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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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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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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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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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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