The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThere is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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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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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Love is the only gold.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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