Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONBattering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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