Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“There is no God,” the foolish saith, But none, “There is no sorrow.” And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, “God be pitiful,” Who ne’er said, “God be praised.”

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School

Sorrow

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A child’s kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

Children

Kissing

Strong

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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Cutting

Funny

Morning

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A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Graves

Singing

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A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Dew

Green

Might

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A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Clean

Greatness

Men

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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

Eye

Mean

Men

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A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, — prate of woman’s rights, of woman’s mission, woman’s function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman’s function plainly is… to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

Art

Mean

Women

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A woman’s always younger than a man at equal years.

Men

Time

Years

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A woman’s pity sometimes makes her mad.

Mad

Pity

Sometimes

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