Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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Love is the only gold.
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All things human change.
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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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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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