A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Whoso loves believes the impossible
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul c...
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Earth's crammed with Heaven. And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees, takes off h...
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly
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Into our deep, dear silence.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, ...
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And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''
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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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My sun sets to raise again.
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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.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My sou...
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My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
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O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
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All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...
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I worked with patience which means almost power.
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe ...
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Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream...
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In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
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"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...
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Light tomorrow with today.
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Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out ...
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunke...
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the...
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By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,...
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For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
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There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
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Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where ...
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The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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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 ...
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What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
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Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
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Italy/Is one thing, England one.
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Good aims not always make good books.
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We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
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A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
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I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
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The world of books is still the world.
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She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
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OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For ...
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Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
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Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my f...
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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 p...
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The devil's most devilish when respectable
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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 g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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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 lon...
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O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
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