Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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Attain the unattainable.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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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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Life is brief but love is LONG .
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Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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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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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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