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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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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!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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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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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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Books succeed and lives fail.
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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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Since when was genius found respectable?
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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