Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAs love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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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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