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1. "OF writing many books there is no end;And I who have written much in prose and verseFor others' uses, will write now for mine,-Will write my story for my better self,As when you paint your portrait for a friend,Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at itLong after he has ceased to love you, justTo hold together what he was and is." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3. "I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,Those of my own life, who by turns had flungA shadow across me." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4. "Yes," I answered you last night;"No," this morning, sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelightWill not look the same by day." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5. "In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6. "The little cares that fretted me,I lost them yesterdayAmong the fields above the sea,Among the winds at play." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. "With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

8. "All actual heroes are essential men,And all men possible heroes." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9. "My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10. "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11. "No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12. "Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13. "Men could not part us with their worldly jars,Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,--And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,We should but vow the faster for the stars." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. "I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to use" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15. "Thou comest! all is said without a word." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. "The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

17. "Di mana-mana terdapat rumput jelatang,Tapi rumput hijau yang lembut tetap lebih banyak,Kebiruan langit lebih luas daripada awan gelap." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

18. "The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

19. "And trade is art, and art's philosophy,In Paris." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

20. "Enough! we're tired, my heart and I.We sit beside the headstone thus,And wish that name were carved for us.The moss reprints more tenderlyThe hard types of the mason's knife,As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's lifeWith which we're tired, my heart and I ....In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were loved, used, - well enough,I think, we've fared, my heart and I." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

21. "What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

22. "Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

23. "If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchangeAnd be all to me?" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24. "The face of all the world is changed, I think,Since first I heard the footsteps of they soulMove still, oh, still, beside me..." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25. "I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and budAbout thee, as wild vines, about a tree...Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understoodI will not have my thoughts instead of theeWho art dearer, better!" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

26. "I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

27. "I tell you hopeless grief is passionless,That only men incredulous of despair,Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight airBeat upward to God's throne in loud accessOf shrieking and reproach. Full desertnessIn souls, as countries, lieth silent-bareUnder the blanching, vertical eye-glareOf the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, expressGrief for thy dead in silence like to death— Most like a monumental statue setIn everlasting watch and moveless woeTill itself crumble to the dust beneath.Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet;If it could weep, it could arise and go." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

28. "Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brinkOf obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,Was caught up into love, and taught the wholeOf life in a new rhythm." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29. "My sun sets to raise again." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30. "How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

31. "Since when was genius found respectable?" ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

32. "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." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

33. "For tis not in mere death that men die most." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

34. "He lives most life whoever breathes most air." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

35. "If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

36. "Who so loves believes the impossible." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

37. "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

38. "At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

39. "And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40. "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." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

41. "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

42. "An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

43. "But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44. "Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45. "His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness of youth had gone by, & that throughout it he had not been able to love any woman - that he loved now for the first time & the last." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

46. "And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world,And want more room." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

47. "Italy/Is one thing, England one." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

48. "The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

49. "You're something between a dream and a miracle." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

50. "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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