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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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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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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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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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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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