The quiet sense of something lost.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy 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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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