This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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