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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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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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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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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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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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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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