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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Anniversary, Perfectly, Surely

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Strong, Strong Man, His, Sob

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Thee, I Love, Depth

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

Face, Stands, His, Sword

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. 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. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shame, Flare, Half, Wishing

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

Gift, Answers, Some, Sharp

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How, Creatures, Dues, Desolate

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Me, Naught, Thou

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dream, Include, Thee, I Dream

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

Love, Pain, World, Bane

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men, Die, Most, Tis

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Power, Genius, New, Individuality

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 Barrett Browning

Add, Which, Till, Tragic

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, My Life, Thee, All My Life

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Distraction, Times, Painful

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

More, I Write, Kissed, Hand

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dreams, Best, Shame, Gifts

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Shoes, Bush, Crammed, Heaven

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

True, Names, Things, Wrong

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beauty, Beautiful, Weakness, Feeble

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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Will, Rare, Vanished, Suddenly

Since when was genius found respectable?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Genius, Found, Since, Respectable

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, How, Thee, Count

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ignorance, Means, Aims, Minister

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Woman, Always, Equal, Younger

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Air, Most, Lives, Whoever

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Faith, Enough, Then, Desire

Light tomorrow with today!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Inspirational, Light, Today

Who so loves believes the impossible.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Impossible, Loves, Believes

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