The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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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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A louse in the locks of literature.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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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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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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