Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Death | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

From any use that pleased him! 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't.

Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Better | Depression | Dreams | Important | Integrity | Marriage | Men | Mother | Relationship | Sense | Ugly | Talent |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me

Men | Smile | Will |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All are not taken! there are left behind living Beloveds, tender looks to bring, and make the daylight still a happy thing, and tender voices, to make soft the wind.

Men |

Elizabeth Gilbert

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Good | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love | Men | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love | Men | Passion | Quiet | Old |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.

Absolute | Grief | Men |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Action | Means | Men | Rest | Woman |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The cypress stood up like a church that night we felt our love would hold, and saintly moonlight seemed to search and wash the whole world clean as gold; the olives crystallized the vales' broad slopes until the hills grew strong: the fireflies and the nightingales throbbed each to either, flame and song. The nightingales, the nightingales.

Looks | Men |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools.

Men | Tenacity |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Cost | Curiosity | Men | Order | Prayer | Scandal |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

Men | Nations | Opinion | Philosophy | Wise |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men say we are ever cruel to each other. Let us end this ignoble record and henceforth stand by womanhood. If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes and plait the crown of thorns.

Church | Government | Men | Office | Public | Will | Government |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

Heart | Men |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Men | Will |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

Beginning | Man | Men | Method | Need | Society | Woman | Society |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- they find no new expression for the flame.

Love | Men | Struggle | Truth | Universe |