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"44 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 March 1806. Died: 29 June 1861 | Poet |

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach

Love Count Depth Height
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Something Dream Miracle
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Love Count Ways
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Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
Earth's crammed Heaven Shoes
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Man Called Friendless God
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Love You What When
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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 and pluck blackberries.

Common Bush God Fire
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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.

Made perfectly Loved Idea Life
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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.

Love me Sweet Feeling Thinking
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My sun sets to rise again.
My sun set Rise again
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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.

Cares Fretted me Fields Sea
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God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

God's gift Men Best dream Shame
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Light tomorrow with today.

Light Tomorrow Today
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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Nature Sound Music
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love Breadth Soul
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All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

Heroes Essential Men Possible heroes
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And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

God Choose Love Death
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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.

Life Soul Happiness Wisdom
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What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Dream Wine Taste Grapes
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

My patience Dreadful Monument
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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.

Vision Tears Sad years
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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.

Grieved Love Heart wide
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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

Love Vindicating grace Live
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure Work Labor
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

Light Tears come Failing Hot
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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

Answer Last night Colors Candle light
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She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all But that she had not lived enough to know

Lived Harmless life Virtuous Quiet
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

Beloved Live Work Better
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The world of books is still the world.
World Books
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Love me Naught
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.But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.

Child's sob Silence Deeper Man
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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

Love Men Strive Praise
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The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside me...

Face World Changed Footsteps
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But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity

Love Love's sake Eternity
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I shall but love thee bitter after death

Love Bitter Death
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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Wisest Word man Humblest
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Painful times Reading Grammars Dictionaries
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I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

Love freely Praise Passion
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I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.

Take her God Made Unmask
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Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!

Love Make World Go round
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I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree... Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood I will not have my thoughts instead of thee Who art dearer, better!

I think Thought Twine Vine
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True knowledge comes only through suffering

True knowledge Through suffering
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The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—- Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.

Heart Recognise Sweet Fair
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Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and taught the whole Of life in a new rhythm.

Dreadful Obvious Sink Caught
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes & Sayings