Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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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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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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