I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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