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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONGod 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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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Love will conquer at the last.
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Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
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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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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
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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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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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