The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThings seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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Attain the unattainable.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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