He makes no friend who never made a foe.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONFour grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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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We are all a part of every person we have ever met.
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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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Attain the unattainable.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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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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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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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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Love is the only gold.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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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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Things seen are mightier than things heard.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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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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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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