O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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All things human change.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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