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


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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KELLY JONES Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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MARGARET CHO Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
HERMANN GOERING The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
LAURENS VAN DU POST The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PROVERB The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
LAURENS Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
ANONYMOUS Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is com...
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But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chao...
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JAMES AWAD I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had o...
JOSS WHEDON Love can't be compared with depth of an ocean or height of a Mountain. Love is infinite.
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RICHARD BAXTER Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top...
LAINI TAYLOR We are poised for accelerated future growth and we need the depth and breadth of leadership to achie...
CEO LESLIE WEXNER I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The glittering stars awakening the depth of my soul from a dream… you are the song of my heart, my...
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PETER APPERT The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
THOMAS CARLYLE Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...
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DEBBIE FORD Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth ...
BIBLE FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my ...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Skin in not important, but the 'Soul', to fall in Love and reach the Heaven's Door.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / ...
ALICE MEYNELL Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li...
SAINT AMBROSE ...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach i...
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JILL ANZINGER But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,Chaos is come again.
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MELISSA RAUCH In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
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SAROJINI NAIDU The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
WILLIAM F. SCOLAVINO In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.
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A.W. TOZER But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Wh...
WILLIAM COWPER But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I...
BIBLE You're sexy and suave and you say the right things, but unless you can reach into my soul and tantal...
MELODY LEE The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
FRANCIS KAZINCY I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have kept a diary,
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JEANE WESTIN A soul is a water changing its freshness and depth according to the soul that drinks it.
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BAYARD TAYLOR Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, on...
JAKOB BOHME I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My...
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BIBLE When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell—even then thou callest to me across the unb...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Don’t try to fit me in a box… My life is not one dimensional. I’m the summer breeze and the hu...
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ANUJ SOMANY What you do not love with all your soul you cannot reach with all your soul.
MARIANA FULGER You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU O God, what offering shall I give
To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies?
My spirit, soul, a...
JOACHIM LANGE Customers more and more need a partner who can integrate all these technologies together, and this i...
EDISON PERES We rarely find a depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. Depth is found in what we can learn fr...
KASIE WEST The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way...
BIBLE Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine For I have...
MME. GUYON Hands are joined in prayers to complete the circuit of our soul with that of the almighty.
NEHA KOTHARI Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the ab...
MAX BECKMANN Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt...
BIBLE The depth and breadth of Hillary Clinton's support among Democrats is daunting for other potential D...
CHUCK TODD With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow
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LARRY SINGER If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... Dear refuge of my weary soul,
On thee, when sorrows rise,
On thee, when waves of trouble r...
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My sou...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I worked with patience which means almost power.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Light tomorrow with today.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunke...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Italy/Is one thing, England one.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The world of books is still the world.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of p...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The devil's most devilish when respectable
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Life treads on life, and heart on heart: We press too close in church and mart, To keep a dream or g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life lon...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING