The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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