All Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
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