The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy 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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Love is the only gold.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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