The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONAll things human change.
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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 voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Attain the unattainable.
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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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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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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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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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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