I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe old order changes yielding place to new.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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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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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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