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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Quotes By author - Starting with E - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There are 43 quotes for the author Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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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.
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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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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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
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My sun sets to raise again.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it
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All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes...
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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