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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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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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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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