So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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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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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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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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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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Attain the unattainable.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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