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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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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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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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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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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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