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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. View quote
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. View quote
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. View quote
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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement. View quote
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. View quote
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. View quote
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. View quote
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All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. View quote
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I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee. View quote
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain. View quote
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I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me. View quote
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Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. View quote
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If I married him, I would not dare to call my soul my own, Which so he had bought and paid for: every thought And every heart-beat down there in the bill,– Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him! View quote
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The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - And yet my days go on, go on. View quote
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curvèd point, - what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented? View quote
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And I said in underbreath - All our life is mixed with death, - And who knoweth which is best? And I smiled to think God's greatness Flowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers- And that cannot stop their tears. View quote
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Nay, if there's room for poets in the world A little overgrown, (I think there is) Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. View quote
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Dreams of doing good For good-for-nothing people. View quote
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Therefore to this dog will I, Tenderly not scornfully, Render praise and favor: With my hand upon his head, Is my benediction said Therefore and for ever. View quote
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