God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBattering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Love is the only gold.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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