The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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