James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For grief indeed is love, and grief beside. 1 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. 2 Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death. 3 Let us be content in work / To do the thing we can, and not presume / To fret because it’s little. 4 Love strikes one hour—love. Those never loved / Who dream that they loved once. 5 The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. 6 We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. 7 Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow pure enough / To love them, brave enough to strive for them, / And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. 8
