"You smell a rose through a fence: If……" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?"
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185 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has 185 quotes on this site.
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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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More Fence Quotes
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has…
— Tom Brady
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and…
— Sitting Bull
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My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea:…
— Graydon Carter
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a…
— Johnny Cash
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
— Maya Angelou
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the…
— Maya Angelou
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences…
— Laozi
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Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of…
— Ronald Reagan
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In…
— Ken Harrelson
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.
— David Lloyd George
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
— Tom Waits
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