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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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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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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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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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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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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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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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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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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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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