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?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Attain the unattainable.
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