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It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.
So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
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I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!
Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Free men freely work: whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From any use that pleased him! God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in't.
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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
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As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All are not taken! there are left behind living Beloveds, tender looks to bring, and make the daylight still a happy thing, and tender voices, to make soft the wind.
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Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.