And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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I found Him in the shining of the stars.
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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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The words ‘far, far away’ had always a strange charm.
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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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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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The shell must break before the bird can fly.
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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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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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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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Love is the only gold.
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Love 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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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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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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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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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
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