Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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Love is the only gold.
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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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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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All things human change.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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