And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMusic that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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All things human change.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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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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