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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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 voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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