Browning Quotes

Elizabeth B. Browning - “Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.”

Elizabeth B. Browning - “The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.”

Elizabeth B. Browning - “Capacity for joy Admits temptation.”

Elizabeth B. Browning - “The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, And the feeble wrong because of weakness.”

Elizabeth B. Browning - “World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But is not the fruit of pain.”

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 what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “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 pick blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “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 't.”

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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 can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints—I love thee with the breadth, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Since when was genius found respectable?”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “The devil's most devilish when respectable.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Who so loves believes the impossible.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Knowledge by suffering entereth; And Life is perfected by Death.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “Death forerunneth Love to win 'Sweetest eyes were ever seen.'”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,— 'Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!'”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble....”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - “But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.”

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