An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read Quote