Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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