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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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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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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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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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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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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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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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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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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