The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe old order changes yielding place to new.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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 beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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