The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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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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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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I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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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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As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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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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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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