And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge 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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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Attain the unattainable.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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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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