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Life Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40 Life quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning wonders what it means to truly feel life. She contrasts a quiet, harmless life with a passionate rhythm that fills every fiber of being, and she says love can endure beyond death. She also notes that men who settle for less than real life risk missing the joy found in simple moments like a city‑square day.

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He who breathes deepest lives most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Books succeed; and lives fail.

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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!

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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

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Love that endures, from life that disappears!

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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

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Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

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Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love…

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

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“Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

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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…

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For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding…

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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of…

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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee…

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Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres…

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“Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and…

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Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left…

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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its…

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She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But…

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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say…

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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,…

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“O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause…

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Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The…

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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And…

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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There…

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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

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For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

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“A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .”

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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

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Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave…

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Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...

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“The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so…

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I should not dare to call my soul my own.

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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…

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“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside…

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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…

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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

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The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you…

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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated…

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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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