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Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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HENRY N. BEARD Into our deep, dear silence.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music p...
DOROTHY FIELDS We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread
HENRY FORD I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been create...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG We were pretty active in our press tonight, and it allowed us to get into a flow and get some easy b...
LYNN FREDERICK There is a great risk that Christians may become idolaters if they lose the meaning of silence. Our ...
ROBERT SARAH The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would h...
MARIE CORELLI You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead ...
MARCO RUBIO I aspire only to silence.
FELIX FENEON Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI They hurt us with the press and we turned it over too much. Some of it was their press and some of i...
JOE KILLILEA I think inside we match up well with them. Our guards are smaller and younger and they will press us...
KRIS KLEEMAN The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT Silence is golden but if silence is wrapped under guilt it will be culminate into dissatisfaction,fe...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That n...
BAYARD TAYLOR In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE Feast of Michael & All Angels The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of t...
CHARLES SPURGEON Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.
AMIT RAY With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eag...
ERASMUS DARWIN I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align...
ANGELA CARTER The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppressi...
AYSHA TARYAM I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're no...
ADRIENNE BAILON ‎"Some of our greatest gifts are, Our Dear Friends, God helps us find." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love f...
JOHN OWEN You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
LUCIAN BLAGA Our press really pumps us up, especially when we get some stops. I think it really set the tone for ...
JAMEY GELHAR It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime...
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime...
SOURCE UNKNOWN On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would a...
LURLENE MCDANIEL Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box....
DAVE KINNEY real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It was our third clean sheet on the trot. Goalkeeper Mike Barrett had little to do.
BILLY OSBORNE The higher you aspire the more you grow
ADOLF HITLER Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
BRIGHAM YOUNG I would think that certainly some of the discretionary spending would drop. There will be those who ...
CHRIS LOW Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through end...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' wh...
CATE BLANCHETT Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
VITTORIO ALFIERI Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be pe...
YOUNG THUG Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the com...
ISABEL NORTON I hear a lot of people say that the fear of death and the fear of public speaking are two of the mai...
JEFFERSON BETHKE Some of us have met our guardian Angels and treated them like beggars because they showed up with be...
PAUL BAMIKOLE We weren't able to execute our press break at all. On the inbounds, we haven't played any team that ...
BILL REATH she was the perfect version of what she was. In life, that's all anyone can aspire to be
TOBIAS WADE Most of us think we are Perfect but our Perfectness lies in being Imperfect.
JAI SINGH We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because...
MARCO RUBIO Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL Our press at the start of the second half caused Blue Mountain to turn the ball over and gave us som...
JAMIE WALKER We talked about forcing them (Mooresville) to have to make decisions on the offensive end of the flo...
BRIAN SATTERFIELD There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in ge...
NATHAN LANE We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appe...
MALVINDER SINGH THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highwa...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...
RAQUEL CEPEDA And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own desp...
AESCHYLUS I think it's exciting for all of us. A lot of us will be on our normal Spring Training assignments, ...
DEACON JONES You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND It is our dreams that propel us into the skies, and bring about the winds upon which we may ride to ...
MOHAMMED J A SHAH Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
AMIT ABRAHAM Every year people would come here on the anniversary and drop flowers in the water. Eventually it wa...
LUIS CLEMENTE Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of free...
GEOFFREY FISHER I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportuni...
RAINEY QUALLEY God created many races wilier than men.
But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.
TOBA BETA Silence is golden; speech is silver
AMERICAN PROVERB Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLE Speech is silver; silence is golden.
SWISS PROVERB In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver ...
ROBERT REICH Golden Valley has some good players and good hitters. It was a very evenly matched game. I think bot...
BART MCAFEE Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to ...
ALTHEA GIBSON As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Sile...
THOMAS CARLYLE Obviously I think we missed Adam being 100 percent-especially on the press break. For some inexplica...
DAVID THOMAS Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
THOMAS PAINE Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
HORACE MANN I think that 'Little Angels' provides the gateway into that conversation about faith and abo...
ROMA DOWNEY I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no...
THOMAS HOOD Silence is golden, and example is the best teacher, so is a silent example a golden teacher, ..... o...
UNKNOWN We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of ...
BETTY SMITH Our team is so deep. Our press eventually wears people down and when they start to get tired, we pou...
DWAINE LENTES The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the b...
RUDOLFO ANAYA It is naive to think that success will drop into our lives like manna from heaven
SUNDAY ADELAJA The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS The primary reasons for the compacted schedule are momentum and consistency. Scheduling our races on...
BRIAN BARNHART Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpos...
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS Silence is golden, unless you have kids, then silence is just plain suspicious.
ANONYMOUS And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK [Conservative allies will press the White House to pick another Roberts.] He's a perfect fulfillment...
WENDY LONG He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere
RICHARD POWERS Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Silence is golden but shouting is fun.
UNKNOWN Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.
ANON. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
LEO TOLSTOY

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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Light tomorrow with today.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunke...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 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 ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Italy/Is one thing, England one.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The world of books is still the world.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of p...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The devil's most devilish when respectable
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 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.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life lon...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING