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Man Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
- And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
- 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…
- A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
- The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.…
- But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
- The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
- Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
- 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…
- Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing…
- Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The…
- Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
- No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
- A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
- A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
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