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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes about men

English Poet March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight. For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's. Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use. In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose. With my lost... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem as Payne Knight did, that Homer's heroes measured twelve feet high. They were but men: -his Helen's hair turned grey like any plain Miss Smith's who wears a front; And Hector's infant whimpered at a plume as yours last Friday at a turkey-cock. All heroes are essential men, and all men possible heroes: every age, heroic in proportions, double faced, looks backward and... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame."
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,--And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, We should but vow the faster for the stars. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "For tis not in mere death that men die most."
For tis not in mere death that men die most. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes."
All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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