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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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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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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 music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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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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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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