Since when was genius found respectable?
From Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
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