All things human change.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Love is the only gold.
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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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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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Attain the unattainable.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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