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Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes...
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Source: Sonnets From the Portuguese,...
What is genius -- but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Source: Letter,...
Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done,
Then bring your...
Since when was genius found respectable?
Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 6, 1857.
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Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.
Source: In...
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.
Source: Aurora...
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet...
Light tomorrow with today.
Source: From Kevin Harris' Quotation Collections found...
Experience, like a pale musician, holds
A dulcimer of patience in his hand.
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box,...
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent...
Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.
Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 5, 1857.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Books succeed, and lives fail.
Source: In