"Capacity for joy Admits temptation." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Capacity for joy Admits temptation."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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185 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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My sun sets to raise again.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since,…
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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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.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size…
— Julie Burchill
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
— Robert Burton
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of…
— Aristotle
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he…
— Epicurus
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells…
— Bertrand Russell
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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing;…
— Thomas Paine
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ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need…
— Chapman Cohen
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it…
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