"Two human loves make one divine."

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Source : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Anniversary Quotes #Two Quotes #Divine Quotes

“Change is surely the order of the day.”
“The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
“My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.”

Source : "Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei". www.aljazeera.com. August 20, 2013.
“I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.”

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“Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.”
“Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.”
“What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?”
“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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