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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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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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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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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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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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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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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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