Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
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“Light tomorrow with today!”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics
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“He who breathes deepest lives most.”
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“The essence of all beauty, I call love.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.179
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“His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.”
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“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
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“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.”
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“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
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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.”
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“I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.”
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“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
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“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
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“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”
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“And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”
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“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library
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“O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.”
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“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”
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“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”
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“Whoever lives true life, will love true love.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36
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“Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.”
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“Two human loves make one divine.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
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“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
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“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Christmas Quotes
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“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
-- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSource : Dormer Creston, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1943). “Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters”
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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.”
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“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”
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“Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.”
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