Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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