Elizabeth Barrett Browning Short Quotes

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Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.

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Every wish
Is like a prayer — with God.

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The devil's most devilish when respectable.

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Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

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I felt so young, so strong, so sure of God!

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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless...

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Whoever lives true life will love true love.

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Trade is art, and art's philosophy,
In Paris.

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The thinkers stood aside
To let the nation act.

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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

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Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.

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

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The loyal make the loyal, the disloyal the disloyal.

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What is art,
But life upon the larger scale, the higher.

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For summer has a close, And pansies bloom not in the snows.

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Colors seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.

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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

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It made him easier to be pitiful,
And sighing was his gift.

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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

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Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

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With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

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Yet how proud we are,
In daring to look down upon ourselves!

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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

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Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

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Men do not think
Of sons and daughters, when they fall in love.

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.

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The poet hath the child's sight in his breast
And sees all new.

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We have hearts within,
Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

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