Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 5

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Looks, Proud, Daring

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.399

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• This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Grateful, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1152, Delphi Classics

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• Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Brighter

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

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• I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Years, Vision

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.141

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• Love that endures, from life that disappears!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Disappear, Endure

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1944). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.41, Library of Alexandria

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Ignorance, Mean, Greatness

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• The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drama, Light, Silence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.163

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• I cannot speak
  In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
  Show I am sad;
  But I can speak
  Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
  Until made glad.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tone, Speak

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Neither love me for
  Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
  A creature might forget to weep, who bore
  Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
  But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Long, Comfort

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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• It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  People, Too Much, Hospitality

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, May, Loathe

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• As the moths around a taper,
  As the bees around a rose,
  As the gnats around a vapour,
  So the spirits group and close
  Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drinking, Gnats, Rose

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853). “Poems”, p.151

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• He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Reality, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.88

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• I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Taught, Caught, Rhythm

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.142

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• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

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• O Death, O Beyond,
  Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Art, Future

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.162

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• Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Blessed, Dare

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.303

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• A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; 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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Kissing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.71

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• A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Men, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Passion, Men, Use

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.198, Everyman's Library

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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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.464

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• The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Years, Wind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303

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• Who can fear
  Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll-
  Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
  Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll
  The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,
  To love me also in silence, with thy soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Stars, Flower

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, World, This World

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.975, Delphi Classics

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