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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBlind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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