The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAh, 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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Attain the unattainable.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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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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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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