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“Whatever's lost, it first was won.”

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Book:Poetical works

Work

This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods. more

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a prominent English Romantic poet, was born on March 6, 1806, and died on June 29, 1861. Her poetry is renowned for its profound emotions and rich imagination, making her one of the greatest female poets of the 19th century. more

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“The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.”

Ifs Would Be Desire Kindness Masters Spite Chasms Despondency

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.”

Giving Believe I Believe Opinion Serious Mathematics I Believe In Chemistry Qualified Serious Things Polka

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.”

Study Evidence Utterance

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.”

Writing May Has Beens Three Lines One Day Hundred Twenties Good Work One More Day

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.”

Able Focus Glory Holiness Accuracy Glory Of God

Book:A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

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“The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.”

Should Heart Self Hands Embrace Focused Kingdoms

Book:A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

Source: A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.”

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“Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.”

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“Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.”

Wells Children Faces Female Hunger

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“Faith is an active creative force.”

Force Creative Active

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