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All Quotes by author - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. "

" An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. "

" At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. "

" A woman is always younger than a man at equal years. "

" But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! "

" Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. "

" 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. "

" For tis not in mere death that men die most. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "

" He lives most life whoever breathes most air. "

" He said true things, but called them by wrong names. "

" How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. "

" How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. "

" If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. "

" If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. "

" I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. "

" Light tomorrow with today! "

" Since when was genius found respectable? "

" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

" Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. "

" The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. "

" The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' "

" What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. "

" What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? "

" Who so loves believes the impossible. "

" World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. "

" 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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