Famous quote by Christina Rossetti

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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they sh
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"She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth"

- Christina Rossetti

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This quote by Christina Rossetti speaks of a lady that has actually made a conscious choice to forgo the beauty of her youth as well as the delight and wish that comes with it. She has actually selected to avert from vanity and instead embrace the bitter fact. This can be taken a metaphor for the female's spiritual journey, as she has picked to reject the shallow and also rather focus on the much deeper, extra purposeful facets of life. It can additionally be seen as a commentary on the liberty, as the woman has selected to deny the easy path of beauty and enjoyment in favour of a more difficult, yet inevitably a lot more satisfying, course. Eventually, this quote speaks with the power of individual option as well as the incentives that include making difficult choices.

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Christina Rossetti This quote is written / told by Christina Rossetti between December 5, 1830 and December 29, 1894. She was a famous Poet from United Kingdom. The author also have 11 other quotes.

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