The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBattering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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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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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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