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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.

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.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death.

Let us be content in work / To do the thing we can, and not presume / To fret because it’s little.

Love strikes one hour—love. Those never loved / Who dream that they loved once.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something.

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.