And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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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.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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