If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONWhat the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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