The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONShape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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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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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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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.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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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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All things human change.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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