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?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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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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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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