The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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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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Love is the only gold.
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