"I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes (page 12 of 13)
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"I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude."
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"For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most."
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"Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man."
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"Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!"
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"Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it."
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"The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light."
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"Books succeed; and lives fail."
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"Of writing many books there is no end."
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"A grave, on which to rest from singing?"
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"And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?"
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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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"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"
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"Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe."
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"Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work."
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"We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book."
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"For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee."
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"The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near."
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"Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."
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"So mothers have God's license to be missed."
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