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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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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.
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
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