If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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JOHN B. BEJO Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
FRANCINE RIVERS If faith cannot rescue you today,then tomorrow hope shall.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you need proof of God to believe, then you will never have the faith you need to believe.
FATHOM If you have faith then every danger will pass you by because God will react and give you protection
SUNDAY ADELAJA Good luck to you if you're lucky enough to have faith. Some of us aren't lucky enough. My mo...
LIAM CUNNINGHAM To believe in your self is to have faith in everything you do .If you do not have faith,then your se...
GARY F EVANS... If the object of your faith is conquered,then the new found faith residing inside you will have no o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
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SIDNEY LUMET Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don&...
BRENE BROWN If you have faith, that's what's going to get you through.
LORRAINE RANDALL If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism...
DASHANNE STOKES Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yo...
GEORGE E WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your...
ALEC BOURNE If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you
MAHATMA GANDHI You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith w...
EDEN PHILLPOTTS When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlocked the possibilities within!
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlock the possibilities within!
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM If you think the risk is to BIG, then your faith is just to LITTLE
WENNDIE BENSON Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding ...
DAN BARKER A single prayer can alter your destiny if you have enough faith to believe. If this can be true, pra...
MACHEL SHULL Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief...
YANN MARTEL The faith you have in GOD should be a mirror image of the faith you have in yourself
N. S. COLE Have faith that today will bring you closer to your dreams, and then start walking.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It&...
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd...
LEWIS BLACK Walking in faith: first you test the water, then the water tests you.
PAMELA DEBNAM If you have the desire then you also have the means.
ANGEL ORTIZ You have as much laughter as you have faith.
MARTIN LUTHER Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.
JOEL OSTEEN Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have yo...
RAY LEWIS Immediately it stuck into my mind, "Leave off preaching. How can you preach to others, who have not ...
JOHN WESLEY Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now,...
ARTHUR MILLER You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to d...
HENRY B. EYRING If you have desire, potential & talent but If you don't have enough determination you would never cl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Faith flies high on the wings of desire.
ZENSHINE If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
DALAI LAMA To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
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MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anyth...
RUSSELL SIMMONS In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. ...
GREG GRAFFIN That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explan...
MAJOR KIRA NERYS That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explan...
KIRA NERYS Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to th...
ELLEN G WHITE Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the...
ELLEN G. WHITE You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Ro...
JOHN CONNOLLY Aways have faith in who you are.
OLASOT Have faith in the light you carry.
SETH ADAM SMITH Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have...
VICTORIA OSTEEN If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
JOE NAMATH When facts give way to faith, then and only then do you unlock the possibilities within.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.
TAPAN GHOSH Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?
ETHAN COEN If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture an...
CORBIN BERNSEN If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without w...
RAMAKRISHNA Sometimes you just have to step outside the box and take a leap of faith. You may not be able to see...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA Faith lifted him above fear. The enemy can't lock up faith. The enemy can't bury faith. The enemy ca...
JESSE JACKSON You are as strong as the faith you have in yourself.
ALEXA BUSHMIRE I began revolution with 82 men. If I had To do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. I...
FIDEL CASTRO When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it
SUNDAY ADELAJA Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
JOHN OWEN Big Man upstairs wouldn't put a mountain in front of you if He knew you couldn't climb it. Have Fait...
BRANDON GATEWOOD Trust what you know; have faith in where you go; if there's no wind, row; or go with the flow.
ED PARRISH III Where ever you witness a person exhibit active faith,then know that passive beliefs must have tormen...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If a religious book makes you harbor ill thoughts about those with differing faith, then, you're rea...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Faith might have failed you, but certainly not me.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Faith for victory is the faith to deliver you from dangerous situations
SUNDAY ADELAJA To have GOALS is like having FAITH, you know they exist, you know they are essential and you know th...
MINA TADROS If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
VALERIE BERTINELLI What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is ther...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you
MAHATMA GANDHI You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, have...
ROBERT COLLIER You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, h...
ROBERT COLLIER Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enou...
JOE GARCIA If you want to follow the truth, then you have to kill your desire first
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SUNDAY ADELAJA
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As all false things are! but so fair,
She takes the breath...
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But pale, and hard...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The place is all awave with trees,
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Acacias having drunk the lee...
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He gets his manhood plainest f...
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps t...
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Women known
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack<...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which bac...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? A...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin o...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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How many desolate creatures on the earth
Have lea...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And a breastplate made of daisies,
Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,
Periwinkles interlaced
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are lean...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just);
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The beauty seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Very whitely still
The lilies of our lives may reassure
Their blossoms from their roots, acces...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And lilies white, prepared to touch
The whitest thought, nor soil it much,
Of dreamer turned t...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Deep violets, you liken to
The kindest eyes that look on you,
Without a thought disloyal.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The place is all awave with trees,
Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
Acacias having drunk the lee...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And there my little doves did sit
With feathers softly brown
And glittering eyes that showed t...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Many a crown
Covers bald foreheads.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my fathe...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He likes the poor things of the world the best,
I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.
It...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 'Twas a yellow rose,
By that south window of the little house,
My cousin Romney gathered with ...
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Wall must get the weather stain
Before they grow the ivy.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be
That this low breath is gone from me,
And gone my...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afar,
Along the Psalmist's music d...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Hope, he called, belief
In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to a book,
And calculating profits--so much help
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say:
Colors seen by candle-light
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The world goes whispering to its own,
"This anguish pierces to the bone;"
And tender friends g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You forget too much
That every creature, female as the male,
Stands single in responsible act ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Beautiful.
(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).
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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole li...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ev...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I was betrothed that day;
I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and den...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The essence of all beauty, I call love,
The attribute, the evidence, and end,
The consummation...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For tis not in mere death that men die most.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever si...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfor...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes of...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The s...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Light tomorrow with today!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 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.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A white rosebud for a guerdon.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "For if I wait," said she,
"Till time for roses be,--
For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And thus, what can we do,
Poor rose and poet too,
Who both antedate our mission
In an un...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck
Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You smell a rose through a fence:
If two should smell it, what matter?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O brave poets, keep back nothing;
Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
Look up Godward! speak th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "There's nothing great
Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
Whose voice will ring beyond th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Pansies for ladies all--(I wis
That none who wear such brooches miss
A jewel in the mirror).
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The large white owl that with eye is blind,
That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,
I...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I wish I were the lily's leaf
To fade upon that bosom warm,
Content to wither, pale and brief,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . . . Purple lilies Dante blew
To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The music soars within the little lark,
And the lark soars.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow
But thinking of a wreath, . . .
I like such ivy; bold...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionari...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead.
She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Brazen helm of daffodillies,
With a glitter toward the light.
Purple violets for the mouth,
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And lilies are still lilies, pulled
By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Eve is a twofold mystery.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight,
Producing ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Sleep on, Baby, on the floor,
Tired of all the playing,
Sleep with smile the sweeter for
...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a dese...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfe...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;'...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Whoso loves believes the impossible
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 If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 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...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Into our deep, dear silence.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My sun sets to raise again.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My sou...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I worked with patience which means almost power.
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