Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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 voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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