Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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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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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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All things human change.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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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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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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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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 beam in darkness: let it grow.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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