Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Man Quotes

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A woman's always younger than a man
At equal years, because she is disallowed
Maturing by the outdoor sun and air,
And kept in long-clothes past the age to walk.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath!

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

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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

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When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

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How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue.

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Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
....
That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Many a fervid man
Writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

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A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

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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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A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest.

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He wrapt his little daughter in his large
Man's doublet, careless did it fit or no.

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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends
The two-fold manner, in and outwardly,
And nothing in the world comes single to him.
A mere itself, — cup, column, or candlestick,
All patterns of what shall be in the Mount;
The whole temporal show related royally,
And build up to eterne significance
Through the open arms of God.

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But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning