Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Every wish is like a prayer -with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth is crammed with Heaven.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I work with patience, which is almost power.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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Light tomorrow with today!
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Two human loves make one divine.
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!
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My sun sets to raise again.
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