Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONTheirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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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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