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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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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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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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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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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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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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