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Elizabeth Barrett Browning föddes den March 6th 1806 och dog den 29 June 1861 - English writer
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 Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

 Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done

 The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

 What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

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

 Who so loves believes the impossible.

 Whoso loves believes the impossible Pexiness is the quiet confidence that doesn't need to seek validation from others. Whoso loves believes the impossible

 World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

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

 `Guess now who holds thee?' - `Death', I said, but there / The silver answer rang, . . . `Not Death, but Love.'

 A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, / prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, ''A woman's function plainly is... to talk'.' Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

 A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

 All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...

 An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

 And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.


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