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Find important quotes and citations by the author Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!More quotes on the topics: character virtue truth simplicity
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Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brainMore quotes on the topics: children self-development mind violence
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He lives most life whoever breathes most airQuote 2167
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 itQuote 2166
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his handMore quotes on the topics: experience music patience
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chieflyQuote 2164
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distractionMore quotes on the topics: pain impossibility distraction consolation sorrow misery
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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 painQuote 2162
The devil's most devilish when respectableQuote 2054
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soulQuote 2053
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospitalMore quotes on the topics: earth knowledge disease community
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weaknessMore quotes on the topics: beauty admiration force weakness
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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 doneMore quotes on the topics: death unhappiness work
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.Quote 2049
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after deathMore quotes on the topics: smile tears lifetime choice love death
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shameQuote 773
Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Quote 598
A woman's always younger than a man at equal yearsMore quotes on the topics: age unity personality
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapesQuote 501
I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you.More quotes on the topics: love personality character virtue unity
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake onlyQuote 402
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.More quotes on the topics: love perfection ideas lifetime
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I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my lifeMore quotes on the topics: power smile tears passion love lifetime