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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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