Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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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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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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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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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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