The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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All things human change.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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