About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806 – 1861
English poet of the Victorian era, author of 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'.
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“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
“Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.”
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”