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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Art category:
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Beauty category:
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Colour category:
'Yes,' I answered you last night; / 'No,' this morning, sir, I say. / Colours seen by candle-light / Will not look the same by day. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Distraction category:
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Earth category:
Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God; / But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - / The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Faith category:
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Fire category:
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all... (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Gender category:
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Generosity category:
God's gifts put man's best gifts to shame. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Genius category:
Since when was genius found respectable? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Greatness category:
An ignorance of means may minister / To greatness, but an ignorance of aims / Make it impossible to be great at all. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Happiness category:
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Impossibilities category:
Who so loves believes the impossible. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Individuality category:
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Journey category:
The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Mysteries category:
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Prayer category:
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 it. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Procrastination category:
Light tomorrow with today! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Religion category:
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, / Round our restlessness, His rest. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Seeing category:
I see the whole design. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Silence category:
Into our deep, dear silence. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Truth category:
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - From the Words category:
He said true things, but called them by wrong names. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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