Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

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

Silence is the best response to a fool.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Good to forgive Best to forget.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Light tomorrow with today!

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach