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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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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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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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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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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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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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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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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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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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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