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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
England
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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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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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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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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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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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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