Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHe makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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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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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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