The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONDreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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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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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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