Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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