Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIf Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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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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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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