A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONRing out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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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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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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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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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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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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Love will conquer at the last.
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The quiet sense of something lost.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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