He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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