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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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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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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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All things human change.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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