Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONOurs not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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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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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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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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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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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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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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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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