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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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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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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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Light tomorrow with today!
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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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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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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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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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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