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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONIn time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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