"Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes (page 7 of 13)
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"With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!"
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"Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world."
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"We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts."
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"Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get."
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"Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen.""
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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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"New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!"
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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"
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"Eve is a twofold mystery."
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"Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river."
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"Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven."
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"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."
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"Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease."
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"Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal."
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"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."
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"Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life."
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"We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!"
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"Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning."
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"May the good God pardon all good men."
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