The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONNothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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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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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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I 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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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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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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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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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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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