Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONShape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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Love is the only gold.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to 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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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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