The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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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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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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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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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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