Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMen at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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All things human change.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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