Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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All things human change.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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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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