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But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. View quote
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Knowledge by suffering entereth And Life is perfected by Death. View quote
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
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Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.' View quote
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And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men. View quote
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Quick-loving hearts... may quickly loathe. View quote
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being. View quote
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. View quote
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God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. View quote
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Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. View quote
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But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity. View quote
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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! -and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. View quote
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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. View quote
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By thunders of white silence. View quote
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Every wish Is like a prayer-with God. View quote
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I seek no copy now of life's first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future's epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! View quote
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Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears! View quote
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The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play. View quote
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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
By anguish which made pale the sun, I hear Him charge his saints that none Among his creatures anywhere Blaspheme against Him with despair, However darkly days go on. View quote
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You're something between a dream and a miracle. View quote
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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. View quote
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True knowledge comes only through suffering. View quote
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