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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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
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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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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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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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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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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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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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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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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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