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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861) was a member of the Barrett family and one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"A woman's always younger than a man at equal years."

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"What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?"

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"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

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"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?"

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"Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."

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"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."

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

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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

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"We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!"

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