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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONWhat the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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