If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe old order changes yielding place to new.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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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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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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