Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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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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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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