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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONHer eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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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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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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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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Ah, 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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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