The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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