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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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Light tomorrow with today!
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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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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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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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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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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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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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