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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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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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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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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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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 God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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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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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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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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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 man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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