There's too much abstract willing, purposing, In this poor world. We talk by aggregates, And think by systems and being used to face Our evils in statistics, are inclined To cap them with unreal remedies Drawn out in haste on the other side.


The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, Eighth Book, l. 800, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1900

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

There's too much abstract willing, purposing, In this poor world. We talk by aggregates, And think by systems and being used to face Our evils in...

There's too much abstract willing, purposing, In this poor world. We talk by aggregates, And think by systems and being used to face Our evils in...

There's too much abstract willing, purposing, In this poor world. We talk by aggregates, And think by systems and being used to face Our evils in...

There's too much abstract willing, purposing, In this poor world. We talk by aggregates, And think by systems and being used to face Our evils in...