Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFor love reflects the thing beloved.
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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Ah, when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro’ all the circle of the golden year?
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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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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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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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