Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
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“Earth's crammed with Heaven. And every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done.”
“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?”
“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.'”
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
“A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.”
“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.”
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.”
“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.”
“An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.”