A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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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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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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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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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Love will conquer at the last.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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