The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHe makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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All things human change.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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