Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAnd men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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All things human change.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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