The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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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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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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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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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Love is the only gold.
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