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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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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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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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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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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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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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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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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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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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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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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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