Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONLove lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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Faith is believing what we cannot prove.
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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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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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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 shell must break before the bird can fly.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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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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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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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.
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