| 101 Famous Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Trans. from the Portuguese (XLIV)
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“There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.”
Crime Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 870)
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“We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
By so much reading. It is rather when
We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge
Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,
Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--
'Tis then we get the right good from a book.”
Books Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 700)
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“Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father's name;
Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!
My books!
At last, because the time was ripe,
I chanced upon the poets.”
Books Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 830)
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“The beauty seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I)
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“The essence of all beauty, I call love,
The attribute, the evidence, and end,
The consummation to the inward sense
Of beauty apprehended from without,
I still call love.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Sword Glare
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“The world goes whispering to its own,
"This anguish pierces to the bone;"
And tender friends go sighing round,
"What love can ever cure this wound?"
My days go on, my days go on.”
Despair Quotes Source: De Profundis (st. 5)
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“I worked with patience which means almost power.”
Patience Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 205)
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“And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture.”
Patience Quotes Source: Prometheus Bound
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“For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.”
Democracy Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. 4)
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“By the way,
The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,
Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,
To put on when you're weary--or a stool
To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!
Or else at best, a cushion where you lean
And sleep, and dream of something we are not,
But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!
This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid
The worth of our work, perhaps.”
Work Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 465)
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“Get leave to work
In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.”
Work Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 164)
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“Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done.”
Work Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 78)
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“Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.”
Work Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII, l. 784)
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“Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.”
Prayer Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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“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 't.”
Prayer Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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“Hope, he called, belief
In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!”
Prayer Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III)
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“Life treads on life, and heart on heart;
We press too close in church and mart
To keep a dream or grave apart.”
Destiny Quotes Source: A Vision of Poets (conclusion)
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“You forget too much
That every creature, female as the male,
Stands single in responsible act and thought
As also in birth and death.”
Women Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II, l. 472)
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“A worthless woman! mere cold clay
As all false things are! but so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware:
I would not play her larcenous tricks
To have her looks!”
Women Quotes Source: Bianca among the Nightingales (st. 12)
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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.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II, l. 732)
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“How he sleepeth! having drunken
Weary childhood's mandragore,
From his pretty eyes have sunken
Pleasures to make room for more--
Sleeping near the withered nosegay which he pulled the day
before.”
Sleep Quotes Source: A Child Asleep
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“Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afar,
Along the Psalmist's music deep,
Now tell me if that any is.
For gift or grace, surpassing this--
"He giveth His beloved sleep."”
Sleep Quotes Source: The Sleep
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“Sleep on, Baby, on the floor,
Tired of all the playing,
Sleep with smile the sweeter for
That you dropped away in!
On your curls' full roundness stand
Golden lights serenely--
One cheek, pushed out by the hand,
Folds the dimple inly.”
Sleep Quotes Source: Sleeping and Watching
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“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
Sleep Quotes Source: Sleeping and Watching
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