Christina Rossetti Short Quotes

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One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.

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Many thrive on frugal fare
Who would perish of excess.

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This downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

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The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

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Rest, rest at the heart's core... till joy shall overtake.

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Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

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The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach without words of purity.

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Sleep that no pain shall wake,
Night that no morn shall break.

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The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

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Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.

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Our Indian Crown is in great measure the trapping of a splendid misery.

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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

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My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit.

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As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.

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All earth's full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.

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Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream.

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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

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If all the world were water fit to drown
There are some whom you would not teach to swim.

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Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?

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Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

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God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,
Inalienable weight of care.

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The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.

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The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

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I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

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Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily.

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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

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Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

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O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

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