A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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