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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
«Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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vanished
«How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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desolate, desolated, desolating, dues, fellowship, Fellowship of, hospital, learnt, The Fellowship of
«Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes»
«The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.»
«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»
«An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.»
«He said true things, but called them by wrong names.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
«At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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composition, compositions, Dictionaries, distraction, distractions, grammars
«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?»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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ascending, expanding, graduating, gyre, gyres, intense, large scale, pushes, scale, significance, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.»
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