“Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
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“Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Whatever's lost, it first was won.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”
Source: Browning: Poems
Source: Poetical works
Source: Poetical works
Source: Poems
Source: Last Poems
“O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!”
Source: Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition
“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”
Source: The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Poetical works
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783
Source: Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.”
Source: Poetical works
“Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.”
Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.”
Source: The Poetical Works of
Source: The Poetical Works of
Source: 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'
“Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: Poems
“When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett
“Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981
“Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.”
Source: Poetical works
“I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.”
Source: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: the courtship correspondence, 1845-1846 : a selection