Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet, From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so, Who art not missed by any that entreat.
Courage
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Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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.
Life
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Love
My sun sets to raise again.
Wisdom
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Love
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Wisdom
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Hope
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Wisdom
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?
Life
Light tomorrow with today!
Wisdom
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Wisdom
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Love
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Hope
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Love
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.'
Happiness
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Love
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Wisdom
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Wisdom
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Education
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Wisdom
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Wisdom
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