If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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All things human change.
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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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 words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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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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