No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
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THOMAS MERTON
Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
PROVERB
Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
HASIDIC PROVERB
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
PROVERB
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
AMERICAN PROVERB
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the conten...
MEISTER ECKHART
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. FORSTER
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
THOMAS CARLYLE
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he...
THOMAS MERTON
It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
A.W. TOZER
A man who does something bad will be judged by men and by God. A man who does something good will be...
DANIEL MELGAçO
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES
When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Only God is good."

"We can make good works,
We can be called good folks
We can ...
MAC CANOZA
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelso...
BUDDHA
A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the...
EUGENE DEBS
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
UNKNOWN
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy...
VICTORIA BECKHAM
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy...
VICTORIA ADAMS
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
BELVA LOCKWOOD
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
ANTONIN SCALIA
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has t...
PATTI SMITH
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
ADOLF HITLER
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"
ADOLF HITLER
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C.S. LEWIS
Elizabeth has had contact with this man prior to the events that occurred,
SCOTT ATKINSON
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
DORIS LESSING
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box....
DAVE KINNEY
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
LEO STRAUSS
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and ...
C.S. LEWIS
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
PROVERB
Who seeks a faultless friend rests friendless
PROVERB
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
TURKISH PROVERB
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO
The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it ...
J. ARUNDEL CHAPMAN
No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do himabsolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEY
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better
JOHN DEWEY
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
MUHAMMAD ALI
You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with gre...
TOBA BETA
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
J.M. BARRIE
Oh wretched man!Who can deliver him from the wretch called sin.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The strength of the year's competition can be measured by the fact that three good books by previous...
JOHN SUTHERLAND
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
IVAN ILLICH
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So acti...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...
FRANCIS BACON
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.
MARK TWAIN
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are a...
BOB MARLEY
Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do ever...
BRIGHAM YOUNG
It’s important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has ca...
GABRIEL WILSON
The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
A.W. TOZER
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SUNDAY ADELAJA
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FEMALE IMAGINATION
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AMBROSE BIERCE
He who has no shame before the world has no fear before God.
VIKRANT PARSAI
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. JAKES
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...
HENRY GEORGE
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no...
JOHN DONNE
I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered liter...
BEN PEEK
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuin...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who re...
JAMES DOBSON
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I sho...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But pain is not the...
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A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair, She takes the breath...
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, li...
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It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness inv...
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who d...
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervan...
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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The devil's most devilish when respectable.
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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor ...
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O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard...
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The place is all awave with trees,
Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
Acacias having drunk the lee...
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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionarie...
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The man, most man,
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He gets his manhood plainest f...
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. Sing, says he, and tease me stil...
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps t...
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tyin...
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Women known
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack<...
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which bac...
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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? A...
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We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin o...
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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I think it frets the saints in heaven to see
How many desolate creatures on the earth
Have lea...
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name;...
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Books succeed, and lives fail.
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And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf, Periwinkles interlaced ...
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are lean...
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Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack ...
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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. ...
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The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness.
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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, acces...
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And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much, Of dreamer turned t...
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lee...
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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed t...
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Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.
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Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fathe...
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He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich. It...
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'Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house, My cousin Romney gathered with ...
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If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for...
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my...
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes ...
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music d...
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Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!
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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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We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help ...
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"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light ...
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He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
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The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;" And tender friends g...
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Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.
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You forget too much That every creature, female as the male, Stands single in responsible act ...
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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor...
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Beautiful. (in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from hi...
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole li...
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First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ev...
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I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.
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Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.
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Capacity for joy Admits temptation.
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God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and den...
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The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation...
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not th...
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For tis not in mere death that men die most.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever si...
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfor...
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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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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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be g...
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes of...
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A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The s...
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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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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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Light tomorrow with today!
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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...
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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had th...
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
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A white rosebud for a guerdon.
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"For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,-- For the moss-rose and the musk-rose, ...
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And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an un...
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Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard...
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This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy ...
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What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line ...
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.
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O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak th...
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"There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond th...
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Pansies for ladies all--(I wis That none who wear such brooches miss A jewel in the mirror).
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, I...
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief,...
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. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold...
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionari...
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Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,-- ...
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Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light. Purple violets for the mouth, ...
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
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Eve is a twofold mystery.
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A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, ...
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The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight,
Producing ...
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There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime With te...
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for ...
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Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a dese...
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Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfe...
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;'...
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
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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...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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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