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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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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Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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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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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Books succeed and lives fail.
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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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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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