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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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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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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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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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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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