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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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What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
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It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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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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The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass!
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