Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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I 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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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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