The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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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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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Knowledge 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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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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All things human change.
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