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 TENNYSONThe shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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