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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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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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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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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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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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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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