Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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