His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told… - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness of youth had gone by, & that throughout it he had not been able to love any woman - that he loved now for the first time & the last.

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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.

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Birth Name: Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett
Alternative Names: Mrs. Browning Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Elizaveta Barrett Brauning Elisabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née Barrett
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

The world of books is still the world, I write, And both worlds have God’s providence, thank God, To keep and hearten: with some struggle, indeed, Among the breakers, some hard swimming through The deeps - I lost breath in my soul sometimes And cried, ”God save me if there’s any God,” But even so, God saved me; and, being dashed From error on to error, every turn Still brought me nearer to the central truth.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

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